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Operation Market Garden: September 1944 (Then & Now) by Simon Forty (2018 HB)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Age Level
- Adults
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Subject
- Military & War
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Era
- 2010s
- Special Attributes
- Illustrated
- Personalized
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781612005867
- Book Title
- Operation Market Garden : September 1944
- Book Series
- Then and Now Ser.
- Publisher
- Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
- Item Length
- 11.7 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Europe / Western, Military / Pictorial
- Item Width
- 8.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
ISBN-10
1612005861
ISBN-13
9781612005867
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240383595
Product Key Features
Book Title
Operation Market Garden : September 1944
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Military / World War II, Europe / Western, Military / Pictorial
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Book Series
Then and Now Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Length
11.7 in
Item Width
8.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
They provide an excellent overview of the battle enhanced by annotated contemporary and modern photographs...
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
940.542192
Synopsis
An up-to-date view of Operation Market Garden making full use of modern research. With over 500 illustrations including many maps, aerial photography and then-and-now images., The battle of Normandy ended as the Allied armies crossed the Seine at the end of August 1944, a month after Operation Cobra had broken the stalemate. The Allies harried the retreating Germans, who left their tanks and heavy weapons south of the Seine, and by mid-September the Allies were coming up against the defenses of Germany itself, the impressive Westwall. As far as the Allies were concerned, the Germans were beaten. The scent of immediate victory was in the air, the only question was where to apply the coup de grace. Logistics demanded that this should be a single thrust rather than Eisenhower's broad front approach. Montgomery--the architect of victory in Normandy--proposed a daring plan to circumvent the Westwall, thrust towards Berlin, and make use of the newly created 1st Allied Airborne Army. The plan was simple: use the Paratroopers to hold key bridges along a single route along which British XXX Corps would make an advance that would be "rapid and violent, and without regard to what is happening on the flanks." US 101st Airborne would land north of Eindhoven; 82nd Airborne at Nijmegen; British 1st Airborne at Arnhem--the so-called "bridge too far." Unfortunately, the plan was flawed, the execution imperfect, and the Germans far from beaten. In spite of the audacious actions of the Paratroopers who would cover themselves with glory, Operation Market Garden showed that the German ground forces would still provide the Allies with stiff opposition in the West. And then, in 1977, A Bridge Too Far came out. With levels of realism that wouldn't be approached for twenty years, the movie produced a view of the battle that subverted reality and permeated public perception. Just as George C. Scott produced the definitive Patton, so A Bridge Too Far provided an unnuanced view of the battles that historians have battled to correct ever since. As with its companion volumes on D-Day, the Bocage, and the Ardennes battlefields, this book provides a balanced, up-to-date view of the operation making full use of modern research. With over 500 illustrations including many maps, aerial and then-and-now photography, it will provide the reader with an easy-to-read, up-to-date examination of each part of the operation, benefitting from on-the-ground research by Tom Timmermans, who lives in Eindhoven.
LC Classification Number
D763.N42
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