Arnhem
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Arnhem

The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944

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eBook - ePub

Arnhem

The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944

About this book

On 21 August 1944 German Army Group B was destroyed in Normandy and Allied troops began pressing east from the beachhead they had occupied since the D-Day landings. Within days British troops had liberated Brussels and reached the Dutch border. Encouraged by seeming total German collapse, the Allies gambled their overstretched resources on a high-risk strategy aimed at opening the way into Germany itself – crossing the Rhine.On the afternoon of Sunday 17 September British tanks advanced into Holland in concert with 1,534 transport aircraft and 491 gliders. Their objective was a series of bridges across the Rhine, possession of which would allow the Allies to advance into Germany. In the event the operation was dogged by bad weather, flawed planning, tardiness and overconfidence, and ended with the Arnhem crossing still in German hands despite an epic nine-day battle that cost the British 1st Airborne Division over two-thirds of its men killed, wounded or captured.Arnhem: The Complete Story combines analysis and new research by a leading authority on Operation MARKET GARDEN with the words of the men who were there, and provides the most comprehensive account of the battle to date, day by day, hour by desperate hour.

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Information

Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781445637167
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 - The Means and a Template for Imitation: Early Developments and German Airborne Operations in Scandinavia and the Low Countries to 1940
  5. 2 - Framing the Battlefield and Marshalling the Players: II SS Panzerkorps, 30 Corps and the 1st Allied Airborne Army 16 August – 8 September 1944
  6. 3 - COMET to MARKET: The Evolution of Operation MARKET 10 September – 11 September 1944
  7. 4 - Up to the Brink: II SS Panzerkorps, 30 Corps and the 1st Allied Airborne Army 11 September – 16 September 1944
  8. 5 - D-Day 00:01 to 14:30 Sunday 17 September 1944
  9. 6 - D-Day 14:00 to 19:00 Sunday 17 September 1944
  10. 7 - D-Day to D Plus 1 19:00 Sunday 17 September to 07:00 Monday 18 September 1944
  11. 8 - D Plus 1 07:00 to 14:00 Monday 18 September 1944
  12. 9 - D Plus 1 14:00 to 16:00 Monday 18 September 1944
  13. 10 - D Plus 1 16:00 to 23:59 Monday 18 September 1944
  14. 11 - D Plus 2 00:01 to 12:00 Tuesday 19 September 1944
  15. 12 - D Plus 2 12:00 to 23:59 Tuesday 19 September 1944
  16. 13 - D Plus 3 00:01 to 12:00 Wednesday 20 September 1944
  17. 14 - D Plus 3 12:00 to 23:59 Wednesday 20 September 1944
  18. 15 - D Plus 4 00:01 to 16:00 Thursday 21 September 1944
  19. 16 - D Plus 4 16:00 to 23:59 Thursday 21 September 1944
  20. 17 - D Plus 5 00:01 to 23:59 Friday 22 September 1944
  21. 18 - D Plus 6 00:01 to 23:59 Saturday 23 September 1944
  22. 19 - D Plus 7 00:01 to 23:59 Sunday 24 September 1944
  23. 20 - D Plus 8 00:01 to 18:00 Monday 25 September 1944
  24. 21 - Evacuation D Plus 8 to D Plus 9 18:00 Monday 25 September 1944 to 06:00 Tuesday 26 September 1944
  25. 22 - Aftermath and Reflections
  26. Plates
  27. Notes
  28. Bibliography