A Bridge Too Far

In A BRIDGE TOO FAR the subject is Arnhem, the greatest airborne operation of WW II, the masterstroke by which Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery proposed to end the war. His plan: drop the combined airborne forces of the American and British armies behind German lines, capture the crucial bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem and send an immense army on the run into Germany.But the brilliant plan went wrong and this daring operation ended in bitter defeat for the Allies -- a defeat with twice the casualities of D-Day.

"Tremendous! I know of no work in the literature of WW II as moving, as awesome and as accurate in its portrayal of human courage." --George M. Gavin