On the afternoon of 17th September 1944, Lieutenant Joseph Enthammer, a Wehrmacht artillery officer based in Arnhem, gazed up to the clear skies, hardly believing what he saw. White 'snowflakes' appeared to hang in the air. 'That…

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Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was the largest airborne operation in history. Its planners hoped to end the European war by Christmas 1944, using airborne formations to seize key bridges in Holland and on the Lower…

The story of the epic stand of the 1st British Airborne Division at Arnhem has often been told and recently the film A Bridge Too Far has re-awakened public interest in the battle. This remarkable book is the only memoir of Arnhem…

"No Return Flight" tells the story of the search for the 27 men that glided into the Arnhem area on 18 September 1944. Their Horsa, one among hundreds of plywood gliders, launched them into the cauldron that would be remembered as…

OOSTERBEEK – ARNHEM 1944 Toen & Nu toont en vertelt het verhaal van het meest gewaagde deel van operatie Market-Garden: de landing van de Britse 1st Airborne Division ten westen van Arnhem om de bruggen over de Rijn te…

In september 1944 stond de hele natie op zijn kop. Een merkwaardige tijd, waarin Nederland heen en weer werd geslingerd tussen hoop en wanhoop. Het mooie witte huis van de familie Halsman, aan de voet van de Arnhemse brug over de…

By Peter-Alexander van Teeseling: in 1944 the Battle of Arnhem is commemorated for the 50th time. As usual, a memorial service takes place at the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek. During this service, when I was nine years old, I…

For seventy years the Battle of Arnhem in 1944 has been considered a bitter and humiliating Allied defeat. But that story fails to acknowledge another: the extraordinary heroism and self-sacrifice, gallantry and grit, sheer guts…

From Bruneval to North Africa, from Normandy to Suez, by parachute and glider the men of the Airborne Forces have gone by air to battle. But their activities have by no means been confined to purely airborne operations - the…

This authorized history, written by a former officer in the Parachute Regiment, covers the formation, training and deployment of the British airborne arm from its inception in 1942 to the present. Initially comprised of volunteers…

This book is not intended to be an accurate, detailed history of the battle, for that can be found elsewhere, but an account, recalled as honestly as possible, of the personal experience of someone who was a very minor link in the…

On 23rd April 1943, the War Office laid down a phased programme for the formation of what was to become one of the most renowned divisions in the history of airborne forces: the 6th Airborne. Based on a wide variety of sources,…

Operatie 'Market Garden' was de grootste blunder van de Britse veldmaarschalk Montgomery. Het kostte vele duizenden soldaten en burgers het leven. Arnhem en Oosterbeek veranderden in ruines.

In voorjaar 1944 voerde de LKP, de illegale landelijke organisatie van knokploegen, in Arnhem twee succesvolle acties uit tegen de Duitse Sicherheitsdienst. De eerste was een overval op strafgevangenis De Koepel op 11 mei waarbij…