Arnhem: The Last German Victory
- ISBN-10
- 0241326761
- ISBN-13
- 9780241326763
- Series
- Arnhem
- Pages
- 496
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-28
- Publisher
- Viking
- Author
- Antony Beevor
Description
In September 1944, having sped through France and Belgium, Montgomery sought to race into Germany and to end the war by Christmas. It wasn't, of course, that simple. Operation Market Garden would drop Allied troops into The Netherlands, held by Nazi Germany, to secure key bridges across the Rhine along the path of advance. But it was folly - in the Dutch staff college exams, any candidate who adopted this plan had been failed on the spot. Indeed, the campaign ended in a glorious defeat, and half of the 12,000 Allied troops taken prisoner. With his typical authority and skill in bringing a campaign to life, Britain's bestselling historian creates a gripping, vivid narrative that shows why the battle was fought, and lost. With masterful command of material from a vast range of sources, he also paints the human side of war, and its heroes and villains - "more like a prosperous dentist than the head of the Waffen-SS" - and moments of glory and humour too. This is classic Antony Beevor - on an iconic campaign.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2019-03-15
- 640 pages
- Ebook
- Amberley Publishing Limited
Similar books
-
Arnhem and the Aftermath: Civilian Experiences in the Netherlands 1940-1945
By Harry KuiperAfter the Allies were defeated, the Nazis terrorised the local Dutch populace and the V2 rockets fired immediately from their Dutch launch sites resulted in over 9,000 casualties in the UK.Arnhem and the Aftermath begins and ends in Arnhem, ...
-
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller
By Antony BeevorYet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single, dramatic battle.
-
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle
By Martin MiddlebrookH., 257n, 458 Sleaford, 459 Slesicki, Lt S., 407 Sloan, F/O R. A., 387 Smallwood, S/Sgt W. A., 355 Smith, Pte D. L., 309 Smith, WO H., 227 Smith, L/Cpl H. S.J., 433,452 Smith, L/Cpl R. S,, 96 Smith, Lt S. R., 256 Smith, L/Cpl W. A., ...
-
Arnhem 1944
By Janusz PiekałkiewiczArnhem 1944
-
Arnhem: Landing Grounds and Oosterbeek
By Frank SteerThis is the latest in the well-respected Battleground series of books, and covers a number of aspects of the battle of Arnhem.
-
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
By Antony Beevor... Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges , 1944 by Viking , an imprint of Penguin Random House UK , 2018 First published in the ... A Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields , Barnsley 2011 ISBN 9780143128830 ( paperback ) THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS ...
-
A Street in Arnhem: The Agony of Occupation and Liberation
By Robert KershawThis gripping story is incredibly compelling and graphically portrays for readers the dramatic reality of having the street you have lived in peacefully for years engulfed in a major conflict.
-
Arnhem 1944 - A Bridge Too Far?
By Bob Carruthers"Brigadier General Gavin, U.S. 82nd Airborne DivisionThis book reviews the complex set of military operations played out in the Netherlands during September 1944 involving the forces of Britain, Canada, Poland, the USA and Germany, ...
-
Arnhem 1944: The Human Tragedy of the Bridge Too Far
By Dilip SarkarThrough this thorough investigative work, supported by those who remember them, the casualties live again, their silent voices heard through friends, relatives, comrades and unpublished letters.So, let us return to the fateful autumn of ...
-
Men at Arnhem
By Geoffrey PowellHis cover has long since been blown, in this edition Geoffrey Powell adds an introduction in which he identifies the men who fought with him in those eight terrible days at Arnhem in September, 1944.