Название: The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
Автор: Antony Beevor
Издательство: Viking
ISBN: 0525429824
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 480
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 6,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the legendary American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the British 1st Airborne Division.
Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept, but could it have ever worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war.