DEVILS BRIDGE -- The German Victory at Arnhem - - A New Assesment

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THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE:
The German Victory At Arnhem,
1944
By
Anthony Tucker-Jones
In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenführer
Wilhelm ‘Willi' Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands
surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor
state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy.
He was completely unaware that his command lay
directly in the path of a major Allied thrust: the
17 September 1944 launch of the largest airborne
and glider operation in the history of warfare.
Codenamed Operation Market Garden, it was
intended to outflank the German West Wall and
‘bounce' the Rhine at Arnhem, from where the
Allies could strike into the Ruhr, Nazi Germany's
industrial heartland.
Such a move could have ended the war.
However, Market Garden and the battle for Arnhem
were a disaster for the Allies. Put together in little
over a week and lacking in flexibility, the operation
became an all-or-nothing race against time. The plan
to link the airborne divisions by pushing an
armoured division up a sixty-five-mile corridor
was
optimistic at best, and the British drop zones
were not only too far from Arnhem Bridge, but
also directly above two recuperating SS Panzer
divisions.
This new book explores the operation from the German perspective as renowned historian Anthony Tucker-Jones examines how they were able to mobilise so swiftly and effectively in spite of depleted troops and limited intelligence.
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6
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9
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Hard Cover
304   Pages
8 pages of photos
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