Operation Market-Garden 1944: Volume 1 - The American Airborne Missions

In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. The American portion of the airborne mission was to employ two divisions of the US XVIII Airborne Corps to seize key terrain features that otherwise might delay the advance of British tanks towards the bridge. The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions succeeded in their tasks of capturing the vital bridges at Eindhoven at Nijmegen in the face of fierce German resistance. However, the delays caused to the British armored advance, combined with stronger than expected fighting at Arnhem led to the withdrawal of the remnants of the British 1st Airborne Division in one of the Western Allies' most costly defeats of World War II. Contemporary photographs, maps and detailed color artwork complement extensive archival research that reveals the successes of those American airborne missions, largely overshadowed by the failure of the operation as a whole.

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• Authors: Steven Zaloga, Steven J. Zaloga, Steven J. (Author) Zaloga, Zaloga Steven J.
• Assisted by: Steve Noon (Illustration), Steve (Illustrator) Noon (Illustration), Noon Steve (Illustration), Graham Turner (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.2014
• EAN: 9781782008163
• ISBN: 978-1-78200-816-3
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 250 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Campaign series; Campaign; Campaign; Campaign series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Netherlands, Warfare & defence, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Air forces and warfare, Battles & campaigns, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Special & elite forces, Special and elite forces, Battles and campaigns