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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A British military historian offers an in-depth account of two critical offensives led by Allied troops against the Nazi power base on the Rhine, examining the strategies, military leaders, and campaign of the two airborne assaults, the events leading up to combat, the power struggle among Allied leadership, and the results of the battles on the war's outcome.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvii, 459 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : black and white photographs, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the legendary American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the British 1st Airborne Division. Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 318
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 974 pages, 88 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism and free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany.
A Bridge Too Far is...
Author
Publisher
Dead Reckoning
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
142 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent John Hewson, A.K.A. "Boekman," is the most dangerous to the German occupiers with vital information about the German army, the only agent left in Holland. Amongst the chaos of Operation Market Garden, his son fights to find him before it's too late"--
In October 1943, all the Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents in Holland are captured by the Germans . . . except one. John Hewson, a.k.a. "Boekman," is...
Author
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction biography written by Marcus A. Nannini, who spent several years interviewing Gene Metcalfe, who was determined to become a paratrooper, enlisted and was part of Operation Market Garden, a paratrooper landing in Nijmegen, Holland. It was his first foray into the field of battle, the culmination of years of training in every aspect of the paratrooper's skills in war-craft. Operation Market Garden was, from the outset, a poorly timed and...
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