Buy this book on-line JACKSON,ROBERT: : ARNHEM:THE BATTLE REMEMBEREDUK.SHREWSBURY,SALOP.AIRLIFE,1994. ISBN 1853103454.
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Colour,pictorial illustrated upper wrap by artist David Shepherd and contemporary,
b/w scenic photographic rear wrap with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing
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minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright, tight and pristine.
Unblemished, plain navy-blue paper-covered bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,
plain white eps.Qrto,vii+1-184pp includes
half-title+title pages, contents list, profuse contemporary b/w photographs, 13 chapters, epilogue, notes+sources, biblio,
7 pp b/w maps and an index.
On 17 September 1944, three Allied airborne divisions - two American, one British, totalling 30,000 men - landed at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem in Holland.
Their task was to lay an 'airborne carpet'
across Holland to the Rhine, seizing vital
bridges and opening up a route for an advance into northern Germany by the British Second Army.This book covers all aspects of that massive operation, which was code-named 'Market Garden' and deals with the German side as well as the British and American.Above all, it tells of the epic and heroic stand of the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem, where the paratroops fought against increasingly hopeless odds for nine days.
They were supposed to have held on for only two, until the ground offensive reached them.It never did.
Robert Jackson's Arnhem covers the air and ground operations in meticulous detail, the text striking a fine balance between official, academic history and personal experience.Written with the co-operation of General Sir John Hackett, who
commanded the 4th Parachute Brigade at Arnhem, it will stand as a major work of reference.
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