On September 17th, 1944, three Allied airborne divisions - two American, one British, totaling 30,000 men - landed at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem in Holland. Their task was to lay an 'airborne carpet' across Holland to the Rhine, seizing vital bridges and opening up a route for an advance into northern Germany by the British Second Army. This book covers all aspects of that massive operation, which was code-named "Market Garden" and deals with the German side as well as the British and American. Above all, it tells of the epic and heroic stand of the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem, where the paratroops fought against increasingly hopeless odds for nine days. They were supposed to have held on for only two, until the ground offensive reached them. It never did.
- ISBN10 1853103454
- ISBN13 9781853103452
- Publish Date 10 November 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 November 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Airlife Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English