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DEVIL'S BIRTHDAY
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| By: |
Geoffrey Powell |
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Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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£10.94 |
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£4.05 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1848846274 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781848846272 |
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| Publisher: |
PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2012 |
| Pages: |
276 |
| Description: |
'The Devil's Birthday' is one of the most celebrated accounts of Operation Market Garden, the allied attempt to seize river crossings - including the road bridge at Arnhem - and secure a back door into Germany. |
| Synopsis: |
The Devil's Birthday, one of the most celebrated accounts by a British writer to tell the full story of the Operation Market Garden, the Allied attempt in 1944 to seize three major river crossings - including the road bridge at Arnhem, the famous 'bridge too far' - and thus secure a back door into Germany. It has achieved the status of a classic; it is now republished with corrections, additions and amendments by the author, who himself fought at Arnhem.Arnhem was the heaviest Allied defeat of 1944. Casualties, especially British, were appalling ; the brave and enduring Dutch people suffered catastrophically in the aftermath; German morale was strengthened at a time of ebbing fortunes; The British 1st Airborne Division - more than 10,000 strong, of which less than one quarter got back to safety - was virtually destroyed; the war in Europe went on for another eight months.If there is such a thing as a glorious defeat, then the Battle for Arnhem must be one of the finest examples.What is especially tragic, though, is that two important victories have been largely forgotten: the triumphs of the American airborne divisions involved; and the manner in which 1st Airborne's morale was sustained, and even strengthened, during the final battles in and around the devastated perimeters.This new edition, besides being a superb history, is above all a record of quite extraordinary courage - of commanders, ordinary soldiers, pilots and aircrew; Dutch civilians; of hard-pressed German troops, fighting to save their country from invasion; and most of all, of the British, Americans and Poles who made up the Airborne Forces. The Devil's Birthday is unlikely to be superseded as the standard work on a bold, gallant, yet doomed, undertaking. |
| Illustrations: |
16 pages of B&W plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Pen & Sword Military |
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Returnable |
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