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In the Shadow of Arnhem
by Ken Tout.
The over-ambitious attempt to ‘leapfrog the Rhine’
at Arnhem in September 1944 left the Allies in precarious possession of a
40-mile strip of road protruding into Holland, with the Germans still
firmly entrenched on either side. Ken Tout’s book deals with the sequel
to Arnhem, and what happened to that vulnerable salient as it was cleared
out, village by village and field by field, by the allies. Using
eye-witness material supplied by British, Canadian and Polish survivors,
Tout has written a moving account of a little-known episode of war that
deserves to be remembered.
Order code NMP8107. 242 pages.
Book price £19.99.
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Arnhem 1944,
Operation Market Garden by Stephen Badsey
'Market Garden' was
one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial, operations of the
Second World War- a joint penetration, by an armoured column and a
large-scale airborne drop, to secure key waterways and railheads and punch
a decisive hole in the German defences. If it had succeeded, it could have
ended the war in 1944. Just why it failed is described and illustrated in
detail in this authoritative and absorbing narrative by Sandhurst historian
Stephen Badsey.
Book price £11.99. Book serial number Osprey 24.
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Arnhem A Tragedy of
Errors by Peter Harclerode
Operation
'Market Garden' remains one of the most spectacular and controversial
battles of the Second World War. It was a bold plan, aimed at shortening
the course of the war dramatically. Key bridges in Holland seized in
advance by a daring airborne coup de main would be the means to a surprise
thrust into the German industrial heartland
The
facts of the subsequent operations are well known: the gallant British and
American airborne forces held the bridges against unexpectedly fierce
German resistance, but the vital ground forces thrust failed to meet its
deadlines and never made it to Arnhem, the last objective and key to the
operation. 10,000 elite airborne troops parachuted into 'The Cauldron', as
the German's called the 1st division battle area; barely 2,000 returned to
Allied lines with the official closing of the offensive 10 days
later.
On
the fiftieth anniversary of the operation, Peter Harclerode has pieced
together an important new view of what was a considerable failure.
Existing accounts direct most of the blame at XXX Corps, and two divisions
in particular, for failing to push the new ground advance forward. This
new work sets out to provide an objective and realistic appraisal of why
things went wrong - and who in truth should have borne the responsibility.
Why, for example, were demands for proper signals equipment for the
airborne troops ignored, with predictable consequences? Why was
intelligence pointing towards the fatal presence of the 9th and 10th SS
Panzer Divisions ignored before the operation. And why, with Allied air
forces in a position to dominate the skies above the battlefield, was air
support so lacking and ineffectual? While some of the questions needed for
a definitive judgement can never be answered, this book represents an important
step towards redressing the balance of criticism and allowing a new view
of the bloody battles for Arnhem and Oosterbeek.
Book serial number bk51. Price £17.99. Fully illustrated paperback
with 192 pages. |
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A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan.
On 17th September 1944, the people of southern England gaped as the
mightiest airborne force in history thundered overhead en route for
Arnhem.
Arnhem was 64 miles behind the German lines in Holland and Field
Marshal Montgomerys plan was to seize the Rhine bridges at Arnhem and
Nijmegen to allow an Allied thrust into the industrial heart of Nazi
Germany. The Allied armies south of the Rhine were due to reinforce the
airborne troops once the bridges had been captured. When Lt General Boy
Browning, the Deputy Commander of the First Allied Airborne Army, asked
Montgomery how long it would take for the reinforcements to reach the
bridges, he was told that it would be two days. Sir, replied Browning. I think we may be going a bridge too
far.
Cornelius Ryans account of the tragic miscalculations at Arnhem and
the valour of the troops on either side is a classic. Over 17,000 British,
Polish and American troops became casualties - more than on D-Day - but
Arnhem remains a beacon of heroism in the annals of military endeavour.
Illustrated paperback with 492 pages.
Book serial number W48. Price £7.99.
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