Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
By: Antony Beevor
4.21
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian …
Want to Read $ 10.99"It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life."-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized corpses."-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central element. It was quite simply a very bad plan right from the start and right from the top. Every other problem stemmed from that."-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
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3. Red Phoenix (Red Phoenix #1)
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5. The Korean War
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Format: 148 pages, Paperback
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6. A Bridge Too Far
By: Cornelius Ryan , Yes
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