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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. 1st edition. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The River Rhine and its delta in Holland protecting Germany’s vital industrial area of the Ruhr helped dictate the course of events in three land campaigns of the Second World War. Some towns and bridges were so important that they were fought for two or even three times in the space of five years. There were three battles for Arnhem not one involv- ing armies of four different nations. In covering for the first time all three campaigns the author is able to put the most famous of these battles in its true perspective as a text-book example of how not to handle air- borne forces. He shows how the Germans ‘wrote the book’ in 1940 when they para- lysed the Dutch by the revolutionary combination of two new arms- panzers and parachutists. In 1944 the Allies carried out ex- actly the same sort of operation but with immensely greater forces and failed. The story that they had been betrayed was a myth and the author deals frankly with the startling de- fects in planning organisation and training which led to the defeat of the British at Arnhem by a rag-bag of German units. (SP)