
A bridge too far: The Classic History Of The Greatest Airborne Battle Of World War Ii (A Touchstone book)
Movie and television tie-ins, War, World War II
Human-narrated audio
Summary
The battle of Arnhem, the greatest airborne operation of World War II, was the master-stroke by which Field Marshal Montgomery proposed to end the war in 1944. The strategy of "dropping the combined forces of the American and British armies… behind German lines" to capture the crucial bridge across the Rhone, ended in defeat for the Allies. 1974.