Samengesteld door Leerlingen van Scholengemeenschap Presikhaaf 1993-1994, meertalig.

Arnhem is in een periode van dertig jaar ingrijpend veranderd. De stad verloor tussen 1934 en 1964 niet alleen haar monumentale en aimabele karakter, maar herkreeg een geheel nieuwe identiteit. Voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog…

Als 20-jarige maakte Bert Kerkhoffs de 2de wereldbrand en speciaal de Slag om Arnhem heel bewust en van zéér nabij mee. Door verraad verloor hij zijn 'Ausweis' als priesterstudent: kwam als 'boodschappenjongen' in dienst van…

Arnhem, September 1944. Nine days of embittered fighting to establish a bridgehead over the river Rhine, part of the audacious Allied airborne operation Market Garden. Twenty-five years afterwards practically all traces of…

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…

On 2nd May 2015, 90 London Taxis collected 120 World War Two veterans, their families, carers and helpers. They rendesvoused at the port of Harwich in Essex to board the over night Stena Ferry to the Hook van Holland. The tour was…

The Reconnaissance Corps was a special wartime force, formed in 1941 and disbanded five years later. During the savage struggle at Arnhem, the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron played a unique part, with its patrols probing…

A first-hand account by the Major-General who lead the British assault, this is the story of one of the most bloody battles of WWII, a daring operation that should have proven successful, had it not tried to go a bridge too far.

Hailed as a classic on its publication in 1980, the demand for General Frost's memoirs has been considerable. No one who has read of Arnhem can have failed to have been inspired by the gallantry of the 2nd Parachute Regiment,…

Now in a new edition for the 50th anniversary of VE Day. A Bridge Too Far tells the classic story of the battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles of World War II, which cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as…

Following their epic combat in Normandy (the paratroopers were finally pulled out of the line on June 30, 1944, after being in virtually constant combat since their night drop in the early morning of June 6) the Screaming Eagles…

Maurice Tugwell is a career paratroop officer who has made a name for himself as an author on military subjects. He was born in the Isle of Wight in June 1925, the son of an Indian Army officer, He was educated at Bedford School…

On 17 September 1944, three Allied airborne divisions - two American, one British, totalling 30,000 men - landed at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem in Holland. Their task was to lay an 'airborne carpet' across Holland to the Rhine,…