51.8°N 5.5°E Western Europe Operation Market Garden
Briefing
In September 1944, 35,000 Allied airborne troops dropped into the Netherlands to seize a corridor of bridges toward the Rhine and end the war by Christmas. The plan failed at the final bridge at Arnhem — a bridge too far — where the British 1st Airborne Division was effectively destroyed, losing nearly 8,000 of its 10,000 men.
Books Covering This Event (2)
Popular History
A Bridge Too Far Cornelius Ryan · 1974
★ 4.8 Accessible The story of Operation Market Garden — the bold airborne assault to capture bridges across the Rhine that.
The Guns at Last Light Rick Atkinson · 2013
★ 4.6 Intermediate The final volume of the Liberation Trilogy: from D-Day to the fall of the Third Reich.