The series of escape stories published since the war have shown that truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is much more exciting. This contention is certainly borne out by the experiences of Anthony Deane-Drummond, so simply…

De Schotse arts Graeme Warrack was hoofdofficier van gezondheid van de Britse Airborne-divisie die in september 1944 deelnam aan de slag om Arnhem. De wanhopige strijd duurde negen dagen. Warrack werd samen met duizenden gewonden…

The battle for Arnhem in 1944 was one of the most ferocious and keenly fought engagements of the Second World War. Amongst those cast into the fray was a non-combatant - a young, recently qualified doctor with no experience of…

"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…

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General Sir John Hackett, distinguished soldier and scholar, commanded a parachute brigade at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 and was awarded a bar to the DSO which he had won in the Western Desert. But the after-math of…

Brochure geniet, 20 pagina's, door Drs. W.H. Tiemens.

Although the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Battle of Britain, all of which proved to…

'Off at Last' tells the story of the 7th (Galloway) Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers in the Second World War. Duplicated from the 5th Battalion K.O.S.B. it served mainly in a coastal defence role and later it was part…

Operation 'Market Garden' - Eindhoven, Nijmegen, Arnhem, 17 September 1944. British and American parachutists and glider-borne troops land in German-occupied Holland; at the same time, XXX Corps tanks spearhead a sixty-mile dash…

Uitgegeven in 1975

Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was the largest airborne operation in history. Its planners hoped to end the European war by Christmas 1944, using airborne formations to seize key bridges in Holland and on the Lower…

Door Peter-Alexander van Teeseling: in 1944 wordt voor de 50ste maal de Slag om Arnhem herdacht. Zoals gebruikelijk vindt er op de Airborne Begraafplaats in Oosterbeek een herdenkingsdienst plaats. Tijdens deze dienst leg ik, toen…