Early in the afternoon of Sept. 17, 1944, the sky over the Netherlands filled with aircraft. Before long hundreds of gliders and thousands of paratroopers were descending on drop zones in a great ...

"First published in Great Britain as Arnhem : the Battle for the Bridges, 1944"--Title page verso. NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents The chase is on! -- ...

2018-12-15T19:00:01-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/382/20181215193929002_hd.jpgMilitary historian Antony Beevor provided a history of the Battle of Arnhem, a ...

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944. By Antony Beevor.Viking; 480 pages; £25. To be published in America as “The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II” in September; ...

\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.

A Battle of Arnhem veteran took a dram of whisky to the grave of his friend during an emotional first return to the Netherlands in 75 years. Sandy Cortmann, from Aberdeen, paid tribute to his former ...

A veteran who fought in the Battle of Arnhem has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours, just weeks before his hundredth birthday. Geoffrey Roberts, from Peterborough, is being made a Member ...

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