Steel Wall at Arnhem - David Truesdale
The Destruction of 4 Parachute Brigade 19 September 1944
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The deployment of the British 1st Airborne Division somewhere in Europe prior to the end of the War was indeed a case of 'coins burning holes in the pockets of SHAEF'. The Allied High Command was anxious to commit to battle a Division that, while it contained some elite units, was not fully trained, had carried out only one divisional exercise and was contained several officers who were either unfit or unsuitable for Airborne command. On Monday 18 September 1944, the aircraft and gliders carrying the menand equipment of 4 Parachute Brigade took off from airfields in the south of England. For the first time from its creation in North Africa the Brigade was going into battle as a unified formation albeit not fully trained and far from experienced. Within 24 hours the Brigade would cease to exist, having achieved nothing more than the deaths of good men for no good reason. Despite the fine words of Winston Churchill that the operation had not been 'in vain' and Montgomery's '90% successful', there is more logic ...
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Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, 8vo. [Auteur: Truesdale, David] [Pagina's: 338] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Solihull : Helion & Company] [Jaar: 2016] [Titel: Steel Wall at Arnhem: The Destruction of 4 Parachute Brigade 19 September 1944]
