Название: Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle
Автор: Martin Middlebrook
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1848840756
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 512
Размер: 17,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be beaten. Three airborne divisions were to seize the bridges across the great rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied armies into Germany. The Battle of Arnhem was a turning-point in the war, a gamble by Montgomery, using three airborne divisions to capture a series of bridges across the wide rivers that separated a powerful mobile army from the plains of northern Germany. If the bridges had been captured and held, and the ground forces had been able to relieve the airborne forces, then there would have been a good chance of ending the war before Christmas 1944. It all went wrong.