A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II
Cornelius Ryan
Language: English
Pages: 670
ISBN: 0684803305
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The classic account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War II.
A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day.
In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces of the American and British armies behind German lines to capture the crucial bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem. Focusing on a vast cast of characters—from Dutch civilians to British and American strategists to common soldiers and commanders—Ryan brings to life one of the most daring and ill-fated operations of the war. A Bridge Too Far superbly recreates the terror and suspense, the heroism and tragedy of this epic operation, which ended in bitter defeat for the Allies.
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502nd. There, he was brought before the commanding officer. Dohun snapped to attention. He was asked if he was aware of exactly what he had done and that his action constituted a court-martial offense. Dohun replied, “Yes, sir, I do.” Pacing up and down, the commander suddenly stopped. “Sergeant,” he said, “I’m placing you under arrest”—he paused and looked at his watch—“for exactly one minute.” The two men waited in silence. Then the officer looked at Dohun. “Dismissed,” he said. “Now get back.
Anything but shells and death.” Anje’s father, Dr. Gerritt van Maanen, working alongside British doctors at the Tafelberg Hotel, brought news to his family whenever he could, but to Anje the battle had assumed unrealistic proportions. “I don’t understand,” she wrote. “One side of a street is British, the other German, and people kill each other from both sides. There are house, floor and room fights.” On Friday, Anje wrote, “the British say Monty will be here at any moment. I don’t believe that.
281-82, 285 bridges at Arnhem, Nijmegen, 254, 291, 377-79, 453, 464, 473 Market-Garden plans, 255, 283, 284, 354 counteroffensive in Holland, 452, 533-34, 544, 566, 569, 572 Moerdijk, 38 Moncur, Sgt. Francis, 181 Montfroy, Harry, 161 Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard Law, 9, 45, 55-114 passim, 522 Antwerp blunder, 6ofn., 61 and Prince Bernhard, 62-63, 79-81, 508-9 and Dutch resistance, 62 meetings with Eisenhower, 65-68, 82-85 and Market-Garden, 11-12, 112-14, 158, 412; see also.
Had never meant to give Montgomery “absolute priority” to the exclusion of everyone else. Eisenhower’s strategy, Montgomery reiterated, was wrong and would have “dire consequences.” So long as these two “jerky and disjointed thrusts were continued,” with supplies split between himself and Patton, “neither could succeed.” It was essential, Montgomery said, that Eisenhower decide between him and Patton. So fierce and unrestrained was Montgomery’s language that Eisenhower suddenly reached out,.
Reflection on Hackett’s ability to command.” Perhaps, Urquhart reflected, he should have informed each of his brigadiers of his decision earlier, but he had “frankly considered the whole question quite academic.” The chance of the division losing both Urquhart and Lathbury was remote. Now, all decisions made, Urquhart idly watched “squadrons of fighters flashing past the glider trains.” This was his first operational trip in a glider, and earlier he had taken a couple of airsickness pills. His.