Author: Ryan, Cornelius,
Title: A BRIDGE TOO FAR.
Description: Coronet, London, 1976, 3rd imp., paperback, 576pp, 8pp half tone ills., 10 maps, chart of command, pictorial wrappers, an account of Operation Market-Garden, an account of Operation Market-Garden, the airborne operation in September 1944 which planned to drop the US 101st and 82nd Airborne and the British 1st Airborne Divisions with the Polish 1st Parachute Brigade and seize the bridges at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, holding them until relieved by the armoured column of XXX Corps, designed to gain access to the heart of Germany and thus shorten the war but failing in the final objective, resulting in greater casualties than in the Normandy landing, spine rolled with a number of light vertical creases, edges tanned and a little foxed, good,
Keywords: airborne parachute campaign arnhem ww2 market garden
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Title: A BRIDGE TOO FAR.
Description: Coronet, London, 1976, 3rd imp., paperback, 576pp, 8pp half tone ills., 10 maps, chart of command, pictorial wrappers, an account of Operation Market-Garden, an account of Operation Market-Garden, the airborne operation in September 1944 which planned to drop the US 101st and 82nd Airborne and the British 1st Airborne Divisions with the Polish 1st Parachute Brigade and seize the bridges at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, holding them until relieved by the armoured column of XXX Corps, designed to gain access to the heart of Germany and thus shorten the war but failing in the final objective, resulting in greater casualties than in the Normandy landing, spine rolled with a number of light vertical creases, edges tanned and a little foxed, good,
Keywords: airborne parachute campaign arnhem ww2 market garden
Price: GBP 5.50 = appr. US$ 7.85 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 41877
- Book number: 41877
See more books from our catalog: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations