The battle of Arnhem
(2017)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States]: Arcole Publishing, 2017
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781787205871 (electronic bk.) MWT11928467, 1787205878 (electronic bk.) 11928467
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by David Case
In this book, Christopher Hibbert, one of Britain's foremost historians, tells the true story of the Battle of Arnhem which was fought in September 1944 on Dutch soil and made famous in the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far. Nine thousand men of the First British Airborne Division were parachuted into the peaceful countryside that surrounded Arnhem. Their objective was to capture and hold the bridge over the Rhine ahead of the advancing British Second Army. Nine days later, after some of the fiercest street-fighting of the war, 2,000 paratroopers managed to escape to safety. This is the vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy
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