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Battles and Campaigns / Western Front / Operation Market Garden Then and Now volume II
Product Details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: After the Battle (2002)
Author(s): Karel Margry
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 220 x 305mm
ISBN: 9781870067454
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: After the Battle (2002)
Author(s): Karel Margry
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 220 x 305mm
ISBN: 9781870067454
Product Description
VOLUME 2 of this two-volume history of Operation 'Market-Garden' continues the story as XXX Corps links up with the 82nd Airborne at Nijmegen which leads to the dramatic and spectacular capture of the vital bridges there over the Waal river. But at Arnhem the tide of battle has already turned. The main force of lst Airborne is thrown back to the Oosterbeek perimeter, leaving John Frost's isolated force at the road bridge to fight it out till the end. As the Polish Brigade is dropped south of the Rhine, and the ground army desperately tries to relieve the beleaguered British paras, down in the south the Germans launch repeated attacks on the narrow corridor in an attempt to cut the Allied supply artery. As savage battles rage for possession of 'Hell's Highway', the airborne battle is lost and on September 26 the survivors of lst Airborne are evacuated back across the Rhine.
VOLUME 2 of this two-volume history of Operation 'Market-Garden' continues the story as XXX Corps links up with the 82nd Airborne at Nijmegen which leads to the dramatic and spectacular capture of the vital bridges there over the Waal river. But at Arnhem the tide of battle has already turned. The main force of lst Airborne is thrown back to the Oosterbeek perimeter, leaving John Frost's isolated force at the road bridge to fight it out till the end. As the Polish Brigade is dropped south of the Rhine, and the ground army desperately tries to relieve the beleaguered British paras, down in the south the Germans launch repeated attacks on the narrow corridor in an attempt to cut the Allied supply artery. As savage battles rage for possession of 'Hell's Highway', the airborne battle is lost and on September 26 the survivors of lst Airborne are evacuated back across the Rhine.
Contents:
PART IV: IN SEARCH OF TIME LOST
The Second Link-Up: XXX Corps reaches Nijmegen
First German Attacks on the Corridor
1st Airborne Division, September 19 (D+2)
Arnhem Bridge, September 17-21
The Allies capture the Nijmegen Bridges
PART V: THE BATTLE IS LOST
The 43rd (Wessex) Division moves up
Hell's Highway
VIII and XII Corps cover the Flanks
The Guards are stopped short of Elst
The Polish Parachute Brigade lands at Driel
The Third Link-Up: XXX Corps reaches Driel
The Long-delayed Last Lift
PART VI: THE OOSTERBEEK PERIMETER
The Perimeter Battle, September 20-25
The Evacuation
PART VII: AFTERMATH
A German Appraisal of Operation 'Market-Garden'