The Devil's Birthday: Bridges to Arnhem, 1944 Book

Arnhem was the heaviest Allied defeat of 1944 and was the subject of the famous film A Bridge Too Far. Casualties during the battle were appalling; the brave and enduring Dutch people suffered catastrophically in the aftermath and German morale was strengthened at a time of otherwise ebbing fortunes. This new revised edition besides being a superb history is, above all, a record of quite extraordinary courage - of commanders, ordinary soldiers, pilots and aircrew, Dutch civilians, of hard pressed German troops fighting to save their country from invasion; and most of all, of the Americans, British and Poles who made up the Airborne Forces. The Devil?s Birthday, whose author Geoffrey Powell, is professional writer and decorated veteran of the battle, is unlikely to be superseded as the standard work on a bold, gallant, yet doomed, undertaking.Read More