Description
| Product ID: | 9781782008163 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Series: | Campaign |
| Title: | Operation Market-Garden 1944 (1) |
| Subtitle: | The American Airborne Missions |
| Authors: | Author: Steven J. Zaloga, Steve Noon |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Second World War, Second World War, Special and elite forces, Battles and campaigns, Special & elite forces, Battles & campaigns, Netherlands, Germany, USA, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. This title features photographs, maps and color artwork that complement extensive archival research revealing the successes of those American airborne missions, largely overshadowed by the failure of the operation as a whole. In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. The American portion of the airborne mission was to employ two divisions of the US XVIII Airborne Corps to seize key terrain features that otherwise might delay the advance of British tanks towards the bridge. The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions succeeded in their tasks of capturing the vital bridges at Eindhoven at Nijmegen in the face of fierce German resistance. However, the delays caused to the British armored advance, combined with stronger than expected fighting at Arnhem led to the withdrawal of the remnants of the British 1st Airborne Division in one of the Western Allies'' most costly defeats of World War II. |
| Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-08-20 |
