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 the Oosterbeek perimeter, leaving John Frost's isolated force at the road bridge 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 attacks on the narrow corridor in an attempt to cut the Allied supply artery. As savage battles rage for possession of Hell's Highway, the airborne battle is lost and on September 26 the survivors of lst Airborne are evacuated back across the Rhine. This title, the second of two volumes, looks at Operation Market Garden, the allied airborne assault on the Netherlands in September 1944. It provides hundreds of then and now comparison photographs, many published for the first time.
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