The Battle for the Rhine 1944 - Arnhem and the Ardennes: The Campaign in Europe
The post-Normandy battles as the Allies struggled to advance from the Seine to the Rhine were never less than complex and controversial. Nijmegen, Arnhem, the Huertgen Forest, the battles along the Channel coast and the River Scheldt, at Aachen, across the Ardennes and in the Saar, all had their difficulties, and even after sixty years the questions remain.
Who was really responsible for the failure at Nijmegen, the destruction of the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem and the failure of Operation Market Garden? Why was Montgomery threatened with the sack when he had just retrieved Bradley's failure in the Battle of the Bulge? Was General Eisenhower's command strategy either workable or wise, and did Bradley and Patton undermine it?