Arnhem : the battle for the bridges, 1944 / Antony Beevor.

Collection type	Library
Author	Beevor, Antony, 1946-;
Call Number	940.54219218 B415a
Document type	Monograph
Year	2018. 2018.
Pagination	xxi, 457 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher	Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books,
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-438) and index. On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop power. Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept: the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. But could it ever have worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch, who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pi tiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war. The British fascination with heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has recon structed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student himself called 'The Last German Victory'. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single, dramatic battle. It looks into the very heart of war.
Place made	[London] : [London] :

Abstract

Machine generated contents note: 1.The Chase is On! -- 2.`Mad Tuesday'' -- 3.The First Allied Airborne Army -- 4.Doubts Dismissed -- 5.The Day of the Hatchet -- 6.Final Touches -- 7.Eve of Battle -- Saturday 16 September -- 8.Airborne Invasion -- Sunday Mo rning 17 September -- 9.The German Reaction -- Sunday 17 September -- 10.The British Landings -- Sunday 17 September -- 11.The American Landings -- Sunday 17 September -- 12.Night and Day Arnhem -- 17--18 September -- 13.Arnhem -- The Second Lift -- Monda y 18 September -- 14.The American Divisions and XXX Corps -- Monday 18 September -- 15.Arnhem -- Tuesday 19 September -- 16.Nijmegen and Eindhoven -- Tuesday 19 September -- 17.Nijmegen -- Crossing the Waal -- Wednesday 20 September -- 18.Arnhem Bridge an d Oosterbeek -- Wednesday 20 September -- 19.Nijmegen and Hell''s Highway -- Thursday 21 September -- 20.Oosterbeek -- Thursday 21 September -- 21.Black Friday -- 22 September -- 22.Saturday 23 September -- Contents note continued: 23.Sunday 24 September -- 24.Operation Berlin -- Monday 25 September -- 25.Oosterbeek, Arnhem, Nijmegen -- Tuesday 26 September -- 26.The Evacuation and Looting of Arnhem -- 23 September to November 1944 -- 27.The Island of Men -- September to November 1944 -- 28.The Hunger Winter -- November 1944 to May 1945.