Operation Market Garden
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Operation Market Garden

The Legend of the Waal Crossing

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eBook - ePub

Operation Market Garden

The Legend of the Waal Crossing

About this book

A new interpretation of the wider military context of the doomed operation features previously unpublished photographs and documents
 
Using first hand accounts and official records, this history examines the legend of the Waal Crossing and the truth behind it, revealing how a culture of elitism mixed with national and personal rivalries led to arguably the greatest Allied defeat of the war. On September 20, 1944, U.S. paratroopers launched a desperate, near suicidal river-crossing in an effort to reach their airborne brethren trapped at Arnhem, only to see their efforts squandered by British tank crews who, instead of racing ahead, sat down to drink tea. The story of the Waal crossing—as told by American veterans of the operation—has become a part of the Arnhem legend, a legend of airborne heroism set against the timidity of the armored forces sent to relieve them; of American professionalism wasted by British incompetence. This history investigates what really happened, and why the operation was even necessary?

Information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2011
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9780750979672
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction: ‘A Storm in a Teacup’
  6. Chapter One: Over There
  7. Chapter Two: From Breaking Out to Breaking Down
  8. Chapter Three: From Comet to Market Garden
  9. Chapter Four: Classless Killers and Yard Long Pedigrees
  10. Chapter Five: The Operation: ‘Best Possible Speed’
  11. Chapter Six: A Change of Plan
  12. Chapter Seven: ‘A Very Iffy Situation’
  13. Chapter Eight: ‘Hail Mary, Full of Grace …’
  14. Chapter Nine: A Legend is Born
  15. Chapter Ten: Aftermath
  16. Chapter Eleven: Stories and Histories
  17. Chapter Twelve: The Myth of False Gods
  18. Bibliography

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