Arnhem
Written and Narrated by Hew Pike
Operation Market-Garden was an optimistic but ill-fated attempt to bring about the collapse of the German Army in the West and to shorten the war. It involved airborne forces from 3 countries seizing a series of bridges and holding them until relieved by an armoured column moving up the road.
Too many things were badly planned or just went wrong and the German reaction was immediate and masterly. The armoured column's progress was painfully slow and, for the British and Polish airborne troops at Arnhem, theirs was indeed "a bridge too far".
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