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Operation Market Garden
On Operation Market Garden, intended to shorten the war by six months ...
If Operation Market Garden ... had succeeded, the western Allies could have punched their way across one of the last great natural barriers between them and the German fatherland ...
[It] was one of the boldest plans of World War Two. Thirty thousand British and American airborne troops were to be flown behind enemy lines to capture the eight bridges that spanned the network of canals and rivers on the Dutch-German border.
Excerpt from The Battle of Arnhem by Mark Fielder
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