Operation Market Garden
the legend of the Waal Crossing
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Word Count
47,750 words, Guess
Page Count
191 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100752458256
- ISBN-139780752458250
- Library of Congress Control Number2011507754
- OCLC Control Number767842480
- OCLC Control Number767759355
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780752458250
- Open LibraryOL25188861M
Classifications
- LCCD763.N42 A73547 2011
- LCCD763.N42
Description
A new interpretation of the wider military context of the doomed operation features previously unpublished photographs and documents. Using first hand accounts and official records, this history examines the legend of the Waal Crossing and the truth behind it, revealing how a culture of elitism mixed with national and personal rivalries led to arguably the greatest Allied defeat of the war. On September 20, 1944, U.S. paratroopers launched a desperate, near suicidal river-crossing in an effort to reach their airborne brethren trapped at Arnhem, only to see their efforts squandered by British tank crews who, instead of racing ahead, sat down to drink tea. The story of the Waal crossing--as told by American veterans of the operation--has become a part of the Arnhem legend, a legend of airborne heroism set against the timidity of the armored forces sent to relieve them; of American professionalism wasted by British incompetence. This history investigates what really happened, and why the operation was even necessary.
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