Market Garden Then and Now Boxed Set

Karel Margry

• Publisher: After the Battle
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN: 9781399076395
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire de l'Europe

Both volumes of Operation 'Market Garden' Then and Now in a presentation slip case.

OPERATION MARKET-GARDEN

THEN AND NOW

Edited by Karel Margry

Credits

ISBN: 9 781870 067393

eISBN: 9 781399076395

Mobi ISBN: 9 781399076395

First published in Great Britain in 2002 by After the Battle

Published in 2021 by After the Battle,

An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Limited

Yorkshire – Philadelphia

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FRONT COVER

Off to war. Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, commander of the US 101st Airborne Division, salutes from the door of a C-47 Skytrain at Welford aerodrome on Sunday, September 17, 1944, just before taking off for the airborne drop in Holland (see page 120). From a painting by AlekSandra d’Allure.

FRONT ENDPAPER

Large numbers of gliders stand parked in long lines at Aldermaston airfield on the morning of September 17, the first day of Operation ‘Market-Garden’. The American Waco gliders (in middle distance and on the far right) will be used to fly elements of the 101st Airborne Division to Holland on D+1 and D+2. The British Horsa gliders in the foreground will not be used in this operation.

FRONTISPIECE

D-Day in Holland. The 1st Parachute Brigade comes down on Drop Zone ‘X’ near Heelsum on the first day of Operation ‘Market-Garden’. This is a still from the film footage shot by Army cameraman Sergeant Mike Lewis (see page 198).

PAGES 8-9

The prime target of Operation ‘Market-Garden’: the road bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem. Photographed by a Mos-quito bomber of the Second Tactical Air Force during the RAF attack on German barracks in Arnhem on the morn-ing of September 17, 1944, as part of the preliminary bombing operations (see page 92).

PAGES 88-89

The unopposed landings of the first day: the mass descent of the 1st Parachute Brigade on Drop Zone ‘X’ north of Heelsum on September 17 (see pages 196-197).

PAGES 228-229

Tanks and trucks of the Guards Armoured Division in Valkenswaard on the morning of September 18, the second day of the operation (see page 248).

REAR ENDPAPER

Watched by curious civilians, paratroopers of the 506th Parachute Infantry question two German soldiers whom they have captured in Eindhoven. A city of 140,000, Eindhoven fell to the 101st Airborne Division on the second day of the operation, Monday, September 18.

REAR COVER

The failure of resupply. Parachute containers with vital stores for the beleagered British airborne troops at Arnhem/Oosterbeek have landed in trees in German-held territory, photographed by Luftwaffe reporter Alois Bankhardt.

EXTRACTS

Acknowledgement is given to the following authors and their publishers for permission to quote from published works:

Airborne Operations in World War II, European Theater by Dr John C. Warren (USAF Historical Division, 1956)

Corps Commander by Sir Brian Horrocks with Eversley Belfield and Major-General H. Essame (Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1979)

A Life in Peace and War by Brian Urquhart (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987)

Army in the Sky by W. B. Courtney (Colliers, November 11, 1944)

Airborne Operation by John Yoxall (Flight, September 28, 1944)

A Full Life by Sir Brian Horrocks (Collins, 1960)

Rendezvous with Destiny. A history of the 101st Airborne Division by Leonard Rapport and Arthur Northwood, Jr (101st Airborne Division Association, 1948)

Royal Engineers Battlefield Tour. The Seine to the Rhine, Volume I (British Army of the Rhine, 1947)

PHOTO CREDITS

Except where indicated otherwise, all photographs are from the Editor’s archive.

Aerofilms Ltd: 15 bottom. Airborne Museum Hartenstein: 26 top, 27 bottom, 35 bottom left, 94 centre, 177 centre, bottom, 186 centre, bottom, 187 top, 192 bottom right, 309 top, 311 top left. Airborne Operations in World War II: ETO (Warren): 30, 38 top, 41 top. Airborne Warfare (Gavin): 28 bottom, 44 top. Air/Sea Rescue in World War 2 (Rowe): 183 top. J. Antrim: 266 centre. J. W. Archer: 279 bottom. Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston: 98 bottom. J. Barents: 203 top. Barten Collection, Heemkunde Grave: 67 bottom left, 138 bottom left, 291 top left and right, bottom left, 292 bottom. P. Beelen: 118 bottom left. E. Benecke: 113 top right. J. Beijnes (courtesy G. Thuring): 139 top, 141 centre left, bottom, 143 top, 162 top left and right, centre left and right, 165 centre, 168 top left and right, centre, 169 bottom left. L. van de Bergh: 95 centre left, 184 centre. Berliner Zeitung: 317 bottom right. A. van Beurden: 238 top left, 243 centre left, 245 bottom left, 246 top left, 247 centre right. J. A. Blaauw: 86 bottom right. J. Booty: 307 top, centre left, 308 top left and right, centre, 310 top. H. Borggreve: 306 top left. W. Boersma: 31 centre right. J. Bos: 165 top, 166 centre. British Film Institute: 82 top. L. Buist: 27 top. Bundesarchiv: rear cover, 68 bottom, 69, 70 top centre and right, 71 top left, centre and right, 72 top left, top right, 73 top, 75 top left and right, centre left and right, bottom left and right, 78 bottom left, centre and right, 212 bottom left and right, 285 top right, upper centre left, lower centre right, 287 top, lower centre, bottom, 319 top left, 327 bottom left and right. BundesarchivMilitärarchiv: 173 bottom. G. A. Christenson: 125 bottom left, 266 bottom. Sir James Cleminson: 326 bottom right. Cornelius Ryan Collection, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio: 137 top, 140 bottom right, 146 top, centre, bottom, 147 top, 163 top, 280 top, centre left and right. M. De Trez: 42. H. Dijkhuizen: 128 top left and right, upper centre, 268 bottom left, 275 bottom left. J. Drijver: 323 top. Dwight D. Eisenhower Library: 23 top, centre. J. van Eerd: 105 centre, bottom left, 106 bottom, 109 centre left, 110 bottom left, 111 top left, centre left and right, 274 top, bottom left, 275 top left and right. Flight: 179 centre, bottom. R. Freeman: 112 top left. Gemeentearchief Arnhem: 92 centre right, 308 bottom left. Gemeentearchief Eindhoven: 234 bottom, 237 top, centre left, bottom left, 239 top right, 241 bottom left, 242 bottom left, 243 bottom left, 246 top centre, 247 centre left, 258 centre. Gemeentearchief Nijmegen: 164 top, 169 top. Gemeentearchief Renkum: 90 bottom left, 91 top left, 189 centre right, 304 centre, 314 centre, bottom left and right, 315 top, centre, 318 top. J. Greefhorst: 246 bottom right. N. A. de Groot: 223 centre right. F. Hancock: 123 top. J. van Hapert-Lathouwers: 259 bottom left. P. van Haren: 142 top, 163 centre left, 286 centre, 288 top left, 290 top left. L. Hauptfleisch: 150 bottom left and right, 154 top, centre left, bottom left, 290 bottom left. Heemkunde Son en Breugel: 116 bottom centre, 117 centre, bottom left, 118 bottom, 131 centre left, bottom left, 273 bottom left. Heemkunde Valkenswaard: 226 bottom left. A. J. van Hees: 49 bottom, 314 top left and right. A. van der Heijden: 243 top left. J. Hendrich: 242 top, 258 bottom. F. A. von der Heydte: 212 bottom centre. History of the Irish Guards in the Second World War (Fitzgerald): 55 bottom right. History of the 508th Parachute Infantry (Lord): 280 bottom. W. Hoefnagels: 188 top left. H. Hoefsloot: 203 bottom. M. van Hoof: 112 bottom left and right, 126 centre right. W. van den Hout: 113 centre left, 117 top right, 119 top left and centre. H. Houterman: 70 top left, 75 centre. Hulton Picture Library: 211 top left. Imperial War Museum, London: 8-9, 14 top, 25 bottom, 31 top, bottom left, 32 top, 33 top left, centre left, bottom left, 43 top, 46 top, bottom, 47 top, 48 top left, bottom left, 50 top, 51 bottom left, 52 top left, centre, 53 top, 54 top, bottom left, 56 centre, 57 top left, centre right, bottom left, 60 top, 61 top left and right, bottom left, 73 bottom right, 88-89, 94 top, 95 top, bottom, 101 top left, centre, bottom left, 113 bottom, 114 top, centre left, bottom left, 128 lower centre, 150 top left, top right, centre, 151 bottom, 170 top, bottom, 171 top, centre, 172 bottom left, 173 top, 178 top left, top centre, top right, 180 top, 181 top, centre, 182 bottom, 183 centre, bottom, 185 top left, bottom, 187 bottom left and right, 188 centre, bottom, 189 top left, 192 top, centre left and right, bottom left, 193 top, centre, 194 top, 199 top, bottom, 200 bottom, 202 top, bottom, 204 top, bottom, 205 top left, 206 top left, 207 bottom, 210 centre left, 211 bottom left, 214 top, centre, 218 top left and right, centre left and right, 221 centre left, 222 top, bottom, 223 top left, 224 top, 251 bottom left, 252 top left, centre left and right, 267 bottom, 269 bottom, 282, 297 top left, 298 top left, bottom left, 299 top left and right, bottom left, 300 top left and right, 301 top left, 302 top, 303 top right, centre, 306 centre left, bottom, 317 left, 319 bottom left and right, 320 ce...

Table of contents

• Volume I
• Volume 2