Book description
Operation Market Garden: a plan to capture the bridge over the
Rhine at Arnhem and outflank the German front.
In all twelve thousand airborne troops were to land, either by
parachute or glider, at three drop zones and move towards their
objective. As the world now knows the mission was to be 'a bridge too
far' for the British forces.
Mike Rossiter has interviewed three of the survivors of those
fateful days, each involved in a different flank of the British
attack, and in vivid detail reconstructs the events that lead up to
this most famous of glorious defeats. It is at once a story of hubris
and bad planning, but also of valiant sacrifice and inspirational courage.
Mike Rossiter
is the author of a number of bestselling books on military history -
Ark Royal
,
Sink the Belgrano
,
Target Basra,
I Sank the Bismarck
(which he co-authored with John Moffat) and
Bomber Flight Berlin.
