The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945

by Anthony Tucker-Jones

Overview

Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. Three parachute drops and one armored charge. The prize was the last bridge at Arnhem over the Neder Rijn. Taken intact it would provide the Allies with a backdoor into Germany – the famous ‘Bridge Too Far.’ This was one of the most audacious and imaginative operations of the war, and it failed, and Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history is a vivid introduction to it.

In a sequence of almost 200 archive photographs accompanied by a detailed narrative he describes the landing of British and American parachutists and glider troops. At the same time British tanks spearheaded a sixty-mile dash along ‘Hell’s Highway’ to link up with the lightly armed and heavily outnumbered airborne forces.

Most books about the resulting battle concentrate on the struggle at Arnhem and the heroism of the British 1st Airborne Division. This book puts that episode in its wider context. In particular it focuses on the efforts of the US 101st and 82nd airborne divisions to hold off counterattacks by German battlegroups during the tanks’ advance.

The photographs give a dramatic insight into all sides of a remarkable but ill-fated operation which has fascinated historians and been the subject of controversy ever since. They also portray, as only photographs can, the men who were involved and the places and conditions in which the fighting took place.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526730015
Publisher:	Pen and Sword
Publication date:	05/09/2019
Series:	Images of War
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,020,849
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Anthony Tucker-Jones is a former defense intelligence officer and a widely published expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armored and aerial warfare. He is the author of over thirty books, is security and terrorism correspondent for intersec – The Journal of International Security, and has freelanced for Channel 4 News.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Photograph Sources ix

Acknowledgements x

Chapter 1 Monty's Garden 1

Chapter 2 An Airborne Market 21

Chapter 3 What Panzers? 35

Chapter 4 Securing Eindhoven 47

Chapter 5 Fight for Nijmegen 61

Chapter 6 Trapped at Arnhem 75

Chapter 7 Stalled in the Betuwe 89