Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the
fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely
ambitions Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called for a
rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to and across the lower
Rhine by the British XXX Corps along a single road already dominated
by airborne troops. Their objective along this road was the bridge at
Arnhem, the target of British and Polish airborne troops. Once XXX
Corps had reached this bridge it would then make for the German
industrial area of the Ruhr. The operation was bold in outlook but
risky in concept. Using specially commissioned artwork and detailed
analysis, Ken Ford completes this trilogy on Operation Market-Garden
by examining this attack which, if successful, could have shortened
the war in the west considerably. Yet it turned out to be a bridge too
far.
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The British XXX Corps Missions
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781472820136
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Osprey Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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