Men at Arnhem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men at Arnhem write by Geoffrey Powell. This book was released on 1990-12-31. Men at Arnhem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Men at Arnhem was first published in 1976 the author modestly concealed his identity behind a pseudonym and changed the names of his comrades in arms. But the book was at once recognised as one of the finest evocations of an infantrymans war ever written and those in the know were quick to identify the author. His cover has long since been blown, in this edition Geoffrey Powell adds an introduction in which he identifies the men who fought with him in those eight terrible days at Arnhem in September, 1944. The book cannot be said to be a military history in the strictest sense, even the units involved being unidentified, but the events described are, as the author points out in his introduction, as nearly accurate as memory allowed after a lapse of over thirty years. It is unlikely every to be surpassed as the most vivid first-hand account of one of those epic disasters which we British, in our paradoxical way, seem to cherish above and beyond the most glorious victories.
Arnhem
Arnhem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arnhem write by Antony Beevor. This book was released on 2018-05-17. Arnhem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . his fans will love it' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'The eye for telling detail which we have come to expect from Antony Beevor. . . this time, though, he turns his brilliance as a military historian to a subject not just of defeat, but dunderhead stupidity' Daily Mail On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop power. Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept: the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. But could it ever have worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch, who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war. The British fascination with heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student himself called 'The Last German Victory'. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single, dramatic battle. It looks into the very heart of war. 'In Beevor's hands, Arnhem becomes a study of national character' - Ben Macintyre, The Times 'Superb book, tirelessly researched and beautifully written' - Saul David, Daily Telegraph 'Complete mastery of both the story and the sources' - Keith Lowe, Literary Review 'Another masterwork from the most feted military historian of our time' - Jay Elwes, Prospect Magazine 'The analysis he has produced of the disaster is forensic' - Giles Milton, Sunday Times 'He is a master of his craft . . . we have here a definitive account' - Piers Paul Read, The Tablet
Men at Arnhem
Men at Arnhem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men at Arnhem write by Tom Angus. This book was released on 1976. Men at Arnhem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Arnhem 1944
Arnhem 1944 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arnhem 1944 write by Martin Middlebrook. This book was released on 2011. Arnhem 1944 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * Exciting overview of the World War II battle made famous by the classic movie and book A Bridge Too Far * Boots-on-the-ground story of British paratroopers fighting off Germans in Holland during Operation Market Garden * Masterly analysis of why the operation failed * Draws from the personal experiences of more than 500 participants * Written by an accomplished military historianMartin Middlebrook has written numerous works of military history, including the classic The First Day on the Somme (978-1-84415-465-4). He lives in England
Arnhem
Arnhem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arnhem write by William F. Buckingham. This book was released on 2019-03-15. Arnhem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explore this gripping day-by-day combat narrative of the infamous battle for a bridgehead over the Rhine.
