Operation Market Garden: Then & Now (2 vol set F051&F052)

Before the events of September 1944 fade into history, After the Battle presents the story of the airborne landings in Holland through hundreds of ‘then and now’ comparison photographs. Editor Karel Margry has studied the battle and explored the battlefield for more than 20 years and has collected virtually every photograph taken during those fateful ten days. Many are published here for the first time giving an unrivalled pictorial account of a bold initiative which the Allied Land Commander, Field-Marshal Bernard Montgomery, believed would shorten the war. The failure to capture and hold the last bridge of the nine to be taken spelled disaster for the lst Airborne Division from which over 8,000 men failed to return.