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Operation Market-Garden 1944 (3): The British XXX Corps Missions
Contributor(s): Ford, Ken (Author), Turner, Graham (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1472820126     ISBN-13: 9781472820129
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
OUR PRICE:   $22.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - World War Ii
- History | Western Europe - General
- History | Europe - Great Britain - 20th Century
Series: Campaign
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7.3" W x 8.7" (0.60 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Cultural Region - Benelux
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitious Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to and across the lower Rhine by the British XXX Corps along a single road already dominated by airborne troops.

Their objective along this road was the bridge at Arnhem, the target of British and Polish airborne troops. Once XXX Corps had reached this bridge it would then make for the German industrial area of the Ruhr. The operation was bold in outlook, but risky in concept.

Using specially commissioned artwork and detailed analysis, Ken Ford completes his trilogy on Operation Market-Garden by examining this attack which, if successful, could have shortened the war in the west considerably. Yet it turned out to be a bridge too far.

Contributor Bio(s): Turner, Graham: - Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, specializing in the medieval period. He has illustrated numerous titles for Osprey, covering a wide variety of subjects from the dress of the 10th-century armies of the Caliphates, through the action of bloody medieval battles, to the daily life of the British Redcoat of the late 18th century. The son of the illustrator Michael Turner, Graham lives and works in Buckinghamshire, UK.