The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 Tucker-Jones Anthony
This fascinating title offers a new look at Operation Market Garden and the Arnhem campaign from the perspective of the German forces who defended against the Allied offensive.In the late summer of…
Specifikacia The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 Tucker-Jones Anthony
This fascinating title offers a new look at Operation Market Garden and the Arnhem campaign from the perspective of the German forces who defended against the Allied offensive.In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenf hrer Wilhelm "Willi" Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his command lay directly in the path of a major Allied thrust: the September 17, 1944, launch of the largest airborne and glider operation in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation Market Garden, it was intended to outflank the German West Wall and "bounce" the Rhine at Arnhem, from where the Allies could strike into the Ruhr, Nazi Germany's industrial heartland. Such a move could have ended the war.However, Market Garden
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