| In
1944 Operation Market Garden planned to capture
with airborne forces a string of bridges in German
occupied Holland and then to run an armoured column
over them into Germany.
The
plan failed at the bridge at Arnhem, and Cornelius
Ryan wrote a splendid account of the operation which
he called A Bridge Too Far which was later
made into a film.
The
bridge before the one at Arnhem was the one over
the River Waal at Nijmegen and that was taken in
a combined assault by the American 504th PIR at
one end and the Grendadier Guards at the other -
but there is a lot of controversy about it which
we explore in our book including the incident where
American Captain T Moffatt Burriss claims to have
drawn his gun on Captain Peter Carrington later
Lord Carrington.
The
fold-out map which comes with the book shows the
locations of some 300 places of interest along the
Market Garden Corridor as well as landing and drop
zones. |
