Operation Market Garden - Volume 1 (Hardback)
Then and Now
Imprint: After the Battle
Series: Then and Now
Pages: 336
Illustrations: 1,064
ISBN: 9781870067393
Published: 30th August 2002
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VOLUME 1 covers the mounting of the operation and the crucial first two days of the battle. The story opens with the planning and preparation of the double undertaking — of ‘Market’ by the newly created First Allied Airborne Army in the UK and ‘Garden’ by the British Second Army on the Belgian-Dutch border. The scene then switches to describe the German military situation in the Netherlands on the eve of battle. The massive initial airborne landings of September 17, 1944, are then recounted. The break-out battle by the Guards Armoured Division, spearhead of the ground army, is likewise illustrated with an unprecedented wealth of photographs. The second day of the operation, September 18, sees the Guards reaching the 101st Airborne at Eindhoven, making their first contact with the airborne army.
PART I: OPERATION ‘MARKET-GARDEN’ The Creation of First Allied Airborne Army • The Planning of Operation ‘Market-Garden’ • The Battle of the Belgian Canals • Second Army prepares for Operation ‘Garden’ The German Situation in the Netherlands. PART II: THE FIRST DAY Preliminary Bombing Operations • The Pathfinders • The 101st Airborne Division • The 82nd Airborne Division • The 1st Airborne Division • The XXX Corps Break-Out • PART III: LOSS OF MOMENTUM The 101st Airborne Division takes Eindhoven • The First Link-Up: XXX Corps reaches Eindhoven • 101st Airborne Division: The Second Lift • 82nd Airborne Division: The Second Lift • Bomber Resupply for the American Divisions • 1st Airborne Division, September 18 (D+1) • Index for Volume 1
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Market Garden Volume 2 Then and Now (Hardback)
VOLUME 2 of this two-volume history of Operation ‘Market-Garden’ continues the story as XXX Corps links up with the 82nd Airborne at Nijmegen which leads to the dramatic and spectacular capture of the vital bridges there over the Waal river. But at Arnhem the tide of battle has already turned. The main force of lst Airborne is thrown back to Oosterbeek, leaving John Frost’s isolated force to fight it out till the end. As the Polish Brigade is dropped south of the Rhine, and the ground army desperately tries to relieve the beleaguered British paras, down in the south the Germans launch repeated…
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