Arnhem Audiobook Libro.fm

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The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy made into the BAFTA awardwinning film A BRIDGE TOO FAR

Alive with the detail that evokes the smoking background DAILY TELEGRAPH

Finely recordedtruly the battle of Arnhem has been fortunate in its historian SUNDAY TIMES

This book tells the true story of the Battle of Arnhem which was fought in September 1944

Nine thousand men of the First British Airborne Division were parachuted into the peaceful countryside that surrounded Arnhem Their objective was to capture and hold the bridge over the Rhine ahead of the advancing British Second Army Nine days later after some of the fiercest streetfighting of the war 2000 paratroopers managed to escape to safety

Made famous by the film A BRIDGE TOO FAR