Battlefield Guide - Operation Market Garden

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This is a book which is primarily about Operation MARKET-GARDEN: the reasons for it, the plans for it, how they were put into practice, how the Operation evolved and the reasons why it failed in its major aims. It sets out to show the modern visitor where these momentous events took place and what there is to see there.

However, much of that same ground on which the triumphs and disasters of MARKET-GARDEN were played out was also the scene of earlier and later campaigns. Before the 17 September 1944 start of Operation MARKET-GARDEN there was the 1940 invasion of Holland by the Germans, gallant defence by the Dutch, acts of resistance during the Occupation, sites of German reprisal and the air war. When the men of Arnhem had been evacuated over the Rhine there were the winter of 1944/45 battles in The Island, followed by the thrusts into Germany from the Groesbeek area, of Operation VERITABLE in February 1945, leading up to the RHINE CROSSING in March. Memorials to these battles often adjoin those to MARKET-GARDEN and in several of the military cemeteries on the Itineraries in this book casualties from each year of the war he buried close to each other.

It would, therefore, be invidious to be blinkered about only including MARKET-GARDEN information along the routes. A man who died for his country and for liberty in 1940 or in 1945 deserves as much homage as a man of September 1944. The same concept applies to memorials to a Regiment's gallantry. Therefore, while MARKET-GARDEN is the main theme, items of historical interest in earlier and later campaigns that are along the main Itineraries are described in brief as they occur and some of them are described in Extra Visits.

Inclusief de bijbehorende Battle Map of Market-Garden

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