"No Return Flight" tells the story of the search for the 27 men that glided into the Arnhem area on 18 September 1944. Their Horsa, one among hundreds of plywood gliders, launched them into the cauldron that would be remembered as…

Arnhem 40-45 is het verhaal van een stad in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. September 1944: jonge Duitse militairen hebben een Engelse Jeep buitgemaakt; achterop zitten twee Engelse krijgsgevangenen die naar Musis Sacrum gebracht worden.…

OOSTERBEEK – ARNHEM 1944 Toen & Nu toont en vertelt het verhaal van het meest gewaagde deel van operatie Market-Garden: de landing van de Britse 1st Airborne Division ten westen van Arnhem om de bruggen over de Rijn te…

By Peter-Alexander van Teeseling: in 1944 the Battle of Arnhem is commemorated for the 50th time. As usual, a memorial service takes place at the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek. During this service, when I was nine years old, I…

For seventy years the Battle of Arnhem in 1944 has been considered a bitter and humiliating Allied defeat. But that story fails to acknowledge another: the extraordinary heroism and self-sacrifice, gallantry and grit, sheer guts…

From Bruneval to North Africa, from Normandy to Suez, by parachute and glider the men of the Airborne Forces have gone by air to battle. But their activities have by no means been confined to purely airborne operations - the…

This authorized history, written by a former officer in the Parachute Regiment, covers the formation, training and deployment of the British airborne arm from its inception in 1942 to the present. Initially comprised of volunteers…

On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air…

This book is not intended to be an accurate, detailed history of the battle, for that can be found elsewhere, but an account, recalled as honestly as possible, of the personal experience of someone who was a very minor link in the…

On 23rd April 1943, the War Office laid down a phased programme for the formation of what was to become one of the most renowned divisions in the history of airborne forces: the 6th Airborne. Based on a wide variety of sources,…

Operatie 'Market Garden' was de grootste blunder van de Britse veldmaarschalk Montgomery. Het kostte vele duizenden soldaten en burgers het leven. Arnhem en Oosterbeek veranderden in ruines.

The airborne battle for the bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem ranks amongst the Second World War's most famous actions - inspiring innumerable books and the star-studded 1977 movie. This book, however, is unique: deeply moved,…

Het ouderlijk huis van onderwijzeres Hendrika (Riek) van der Vlist, het bekende Hotel Schoonoord in Oosterbeek, komt tijdens de Slag om Arnhem in de frontlinie te liggen. De Britten nemen het hotel in gebruik als noodhospitaal.…

Na de eerste maanden van terreinwinst op het Europese continent groeide in de zomer van 1944 bij de geallieerde troepen de hoop dat de oorlog voor Kerstmis kon worden beëindigd. Het indrukwekkende plan waarmee dit doel moest…

Een boek met prachtige foto's van Gert Jan Koster, ter gelegenheid van de 65e herdenking van de Slag om Arnhem september 1944 en de Capitulatie in Wageningen op 5 mei 1945.