Arnhem 1944
"On September 17, 1944, over 2,000 transport aircraft lifted off from airfields across England and set a course for Holland. They were the first wave of the largest airborne operation in history, code-named Operation Market Garden. Their task was to open a sixty-mile corridor for Allied ground forces from the Belgian border to Arnhem on the Lower Rhine. Nine days later, the remnants of the British 1st Airborne Division were evacuated from a precarious foothold seven miles west of Arnhem, having failed utterly. William Buckingham's ... account of this infamous military operation, from conception to costly failure"--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 2004
Tempus, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2004