REMEMBER SEPTEMBER '44 On 17 September 1944 thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider up to 150 km behind enemy lines. Their goal: to secure to bridges across the rivers ...

Stories categorised in 'Arnhem 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes. There were stories in the newspaper we could now afford to buy about black-clad Romans bombing the... Lt ...

he Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the ...

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 ...

\This is the tragic story of the last bridge in the ill-fated Operation Market-Garden, and features rare newsreel footage of the Allied operation that was supposed to end World War Two in 1944.

The ultimate sacrifice of a soldier who jumped in front of a grenade to save a mother and her son has been revealed 75 years later. Private Albert Willingham gave his life during the Battle of Arnhem ...

NOT many little boys are christened Percy these days, but you don’t need a fashionable name to be a hero. Because when the chips were down and the bullets were flying, Private Percival William Collett ...

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Stories categorised in 'Arnhem 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes. The Germans came and we were taken, by train, to Stalag X1B, Near Fallingbostell, Hanover, Germany. Then ...