Air War Market Garden (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Martin Bowman | knygos.lt

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This is the first volume of a most impressive tribute and accurate four part work that uniquely presents a complete account of both air and ground operations throughout 'Market-Garden' in September 1944 when British, US and Polish airborne troops made a gallant attempt to seize and hold bridges across the Lower Rhine in Holland as a springboard for crossing into Germany. The Allied planners saw this operation in two parts - hence 'Market', the parachute and glider assault by three airborne divisions to seize the bridges over the intervening rivers and canals; and 'Garden', the advance to Arnhem and beyond by the armoured and infantry divisions of XXX Corps along one single, narrow 64 mile road over the airborne carpet laid by the American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions. The action was at times very confused so a narrative of events contained in sixteen timelines at intervals throughout this series cuts through the fog of battle to explain the situation from its over-optimistic beginning to the tragic conclusion.