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100 1 $aBeevor, Antony,$d1946-$eauthor.
240 10 $aArnhem
245 14 $aThe Battle of Arnhem :$bthe deadliest airborne operation of WWII /$cAntony Beevor.
264 1 $aNew York, New York :$bViking,$c[2018]
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axvii, 459 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"First published in Great Britain as Arnhem : the battle for the bridges, 1944 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK" -- Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"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. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, American, British, Polish, and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student called "The Last German Victory." Yet The Battle of Arnhem, written with Beevor's inimitable style and gripping narrative, is about much more than a single dramatic battle--it looks into the very heart of war."--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aArnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944.
852 00 $bglx$hD763.N42$iA7245 2018