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The Devil's Bridge The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones
Year: 2020
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Language: ENG

In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm ‘Willi' Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his command lay directly in the path of a major Allied thrust: the 17 September 1944 launch of the largest airborne and glider operation in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation Market Garden, it was intended to outflank the German West Wall and ‘bounce' the Rhine at Arnhem, from where the Allies could strike into the Ruhr, Nazi Germany's industrial heartland. Such a move could have ended the war.

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