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

• Pubblicazione: West Midlands, England : , : Helion & Company Limited, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.542192
• Soggetto topico: Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944
• Persona (resp. second.): BuckleyJohn; Preston-HoughPeter
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Operation market garden
• ISBN: 1-911096-89-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809644503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wolverhampton military studies ; ; Number 20.