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Market Garden - The Island - Nijmegen to Arnhem

By: Pen & Sword Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Pen & Sword Books Ltd.)

Last Stocked on 2/22/2023

Product Info

Title
Market Garden - The Island - Nijmegen to Arnhem
Publisher
Category
Author
Tim Saunders
Publish Year
2002
Pages
190
Dimensions
5.5x8.5x.5"
NKG Part #
2147855127
Type
Softcover

Description

Having fought their way up fifty miles of Hell's Highway and through Nijmegen, XXX Corps was just ten miles from Arnhem and the 1st British Airborne Division. Here it found itself on an island of flat land between the Waal at Nijmegen and the Rhine at Arnhem. The situation was increasingly bad with the remainder of II SS Panzer Corps in the area and German counter attacks on Hell's Highway preventing the Allies applying their material superiority. The Guards Armoured and then 43rd Wessex Infantry Division took turns to lead before reaching the Rhine opposite the paratroopers in the Oosterbeek Perimeter.

Attempts to cross the Rhine by the Polish Paras and the Dorset Regiment had little success, but meanwhile, the guns of XXX Corps ensured the survival of the Perimeter. After some desperate fighting on the island, 43rd Wessex Division evacuated just two thousand members of the elite Airborne Division who had landed eight days earlier.

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