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Loading... Bridge Too Farby Ryan (otherwise under Cornelius Ryan)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Helger55 | Apr 29, 2008 |  the human and military tragedy that was Operation Market-Garden; great maps, too xestobium25 | Mar 24, 2008 | Great book, I believe better then the Longest Day. Read about 10 years ago, but bought this copy to read again. Ryan takes his lumps from a lot of historians, but he was the first WW2 historian to break out, as it were. By the way, the movie is really good, again better then Longest Day. (  ) meegeekai | Jan 26, 2007 | This is the classic account of the battle for Arnhem and should be the starting point for any study of that period. This is a well written and easily accessable account of the battle. It is a bit pro-British, but you would expect that from a UK author who was a war corespondent during the war. Honestly, I read through this in high school and that has been a while. I was reading Kershaw’s book It Never Snows In September when I saw this on the clearance shelf at Books a Million and decided to pick it up for a reread (and also just to have in my library; it is a classic). This copy is a reprint edition released for the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII but it appears be printed directly from the 1974 original. I promise a more in depth review when I get to reading it again. ( ) Wprecht | Sep 1, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom) | John Waddy (British Army officer) |
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Here is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled for a single battle -- culminating in the most grandiose and devastatingly tragic struggle of World War II.
Now in a new edition for the 50th anniversary of VE Day, A Bridge Too Far tells the classic story of the battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles of World War II, which cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day. In this compelling work of history, Cornelius Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war 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 the tragedy of this epic operation, which marshalled some of the greatest resources of the war yet ended in bitter defeat.
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Honestly, I read through this in high school and that has been a while. I was reading Kershaw’s book It Never Snows In September when I saw this on the clearance shelf at Books a Million and decided to pick it up for a reread (and also just to have in my library; it is a classic). This copy is a reprint edition released for the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII but it appears be printed directly from the 1974 original. (