Arnhem, September 1944. Nine days of embittered fighting to establish a bridgehead over the river Rhine, part of the audacious Allied airborne operation Market Garden. Twenty-five years afterwards practically all traces of…

On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air…

On 2nd May 2015, 90 London Taxis collected 120 World War Two veterans, their families, carers and helpers. They rendesvoused at the port of Harwich in Essex to board the over night Stena Ferry to the Hook van Holland. The tour was…

The Reconnaissance Corps was a special wartime force, formed in 1941 and disbanded five years later. During the savage struggle at Arnhem, the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron played a unique part, with its patrols probing…

A first-hand account by the Major-General who lead the British assault, this is the story of one of the most bloody battles of WWII, a daring operation that should have proven successful, had it not tried to go a bridge too far.

Hailed as a classic on its publication in 1980, the demand for General Frost's memoirs has been considerable. No one who has read of Arnhem can have failed to have been inspired by the gallantry of the 2nd Parachute Regiment,…

Captain Harry Roberts of the REME (Royal Engineering and Mechanical Corps) was landed by glider at the fateful Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, Moments after he had jumped out of the glider he was shot at by German fire and…

Now in a new edition for the 50th anniversary of VE Day. A Bridge Too Far tells the classic story of the battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles of World War II, which cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as…

Following their epic combat in Normandy (the paratroopers were finally pulled out of the line on June 30, 1944, after being in virtually constant combat since their night drop in the early morning of June 6) the Screaming Eagles…

Maurice Tugwell is a career paratroop officer who has made a name for himself as an author on military subjects. He was born in the Isle of Wight in June 1925, the son of an Indian Army officer, He was educated at Bedford School…

Many books have been written about the Battle of Arnhem and much ink has been spilled in arguing the pros and cons of the disaster. Tom Angus sets out to apportion no blame, nor does he seek to analyse the reasons for the failure…

When Men at Arnhem was first published in 1976 the author modestly concealed his identity behind a pseudonym and changed the names of his comrades in arms. But the book was at once recognized as one of the finest evocations of an…

On 17 September 1944, three Allied airborne divisions - two American, one British, totalling 30,000 men - landed at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem in Holland. Their task was to lay an 'airborne carpet' across Holland to the Rhine,…