In the latter part of 1943, the British Army High Command realised that there was a shortage of Junior Infantry Officers and it was decided to ask for volunteers from the Canadian Army to serve temporarily with the british Forces.…

In september 1944 stond de hele natie op zijn kop. Een merkwaardige tijd, waarin Nederland heen en weer werd geslingerd tussen hoop en wanhoop. Het mooie witte huis van de familie Halsman, aan de voet van de Arnhemse brug over de…

Operation Market Garden, 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 along 'Hell's Highway' to link…

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…

Brotherhood of the Cauldron tells the story of some 300 men who served in or with the 1st Airborne Division during the Second World War. These men came from all of the counties of Ireland, both the 'loyal' north and 'neutral'…

This book is intended as a supplement to the book 'B Company Arrived' which was published in 2003 and told the story of B Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion at the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944. This new publication highlights…

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…

In deze dagboeken beschrijft een tiener haar leven in Nijmegen van 1942 tot 1945. Geboren in 1925 in Arnhem groeide Jo op in het grote gezin van een journalist/typograaf, dat in 1939 naar Nijmegen verhuisde, toen hij ging werken…

Engels, historisch, 368 pagina's

Peter Clarke en Ron Brooker vertellen hun verhaal van het bloedbad bij Arnhem in september 1944. Clarke was sergeant-majoor en zweefvlieger ten tijde van de gevechten, en Brooker parachutist en…

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…

Operation 'Market Garden' remains one of the most spectacular and controversial battles of the Second World War. It was a bold plan, aimed at shortening the course of the war dramatically. Key bridges in Holland seized in advance…

The fierce struggle between the British 1st Airborne Division and the superior German forces in and around Arnhem is well documented. This book tells of the role played in the battle for Oosterbeek and the bridge at Arnhem itself…

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.

In voorjaar 1944 voerde de LKP, de illegale landelijke organisatie van knokploegen, in Arnhem twee succesvolle acties uit tegen de Duitse Sicherheitsdienst. De eerste was een overval op strafgevangenis De Koepel op 11 mei waarbij…