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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809644503321

Titolo

Operation market garden : the campaign for the low countries, autumn 1944 : seventy years on / / edited by John Buckley & Peter Preston-Hough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Midlands, England : , : Helion & Company Limited, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-911096-89-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Wolverhampton Military Studies ; ; Number 20

Disciplina

940.542192

Soggetti

Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Notes on Contributors; Series Preface; Introduction; 1 Learning to Lose? Airborne Lessons and the Failure of Operation Market Garden; 2 Market Garden and the Strategy of the Northwest European Campaign; 3 Operation MARKET GARDEN: T he Manpower Factor; 4 A Week Too Late?; 5 Allied Close Air Support during Operation Market Garden: A Lesson in Planning; 6 Mission Impossible? The Mobilization of the German Replacement Army and its Role in the Thwarting of Operation 'Market Garden', 17-18 September 1944

7 "Dangerously Overexposed?" - Divisional Operations on the flanks of MARKET GARDEN, September to December 19448 The Viktor Graebner Assault, 0900 hrs Monday 18th September 1944; 9 Taking the Nijmegen Bridges: Personal Stories from the Cornelius Ryan Collection; 10 The Defence of the Most High: The Role of Chaplains in the Battle of Arnhem; 11 A Medical Bridge Too Far: Medical Support to Operation Market-Garden, September 17-26, 1944; 12 Exploiting "Market-Garden"? Operation "Gatwick" - The Offensive That Never Was; 13 Starvation and Sacrifice: The Reality of MARKET GARDEN

14 Crossing Water Obstacles in the Low Countries: The First Polish Armoured Division's Forcing of the Axel-Hulst Canal 16-19 September 194415 Command, Control, Co-Ordination and Communication at



Westkapelle in November 1944 - Operation Infatuate II; 16 A Return to Static Warfare: The New Brunswick Rangers and the Breskens Pocket; 17 Shadows of Arnhem: British Airborne Forces and the Aftermath of Operation Market Garden; Index