Operation Market Garden : The Campaign for the Low Countries, Autumn 1944: Seventy Years On.

Intro -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Learning to Lose? Airborne Lessons and the Failure of Operation Market Garden -- 2 Market Garden and the Strategy of the Northwest European Campaign -- 3 Operation MARKET GARDEN: T he Manpower Factor -- 4 A Week Too Late? -- 5 Allied Close Air Support during Operation Market Garden: A Lesson in Planning -- 6 Mission Impossible? The Mobilization of the German Replacement Army and its Role in the Thwarting of Operation 'Market Garden', 17-18 September 1944 -- 7 "Dangerously Overexposed?" - Divisional Operations on the flanks of MARKET GARDEN, September to December 1944 -- 8 The Viktor Graebner Assault, 0900 hrs Monday 18th September 1944 -- 9 Taking the Nijmegen Bridges: Personal Stories from the Cornelius Ryan Collection -- 10 The Defence of the Most High: The Role of Chaplains in the Battle of Arnhem -- 11 A Medical Bridge Too Far: Medical Support to Operation Market-Garden, September 17-26, 1944 -- 12 Exploiting "Market-Garden"? Operation "Gatwick" - The Offensive That Never Was -- 13 Starvation and Sacrifice: The Reality of MARKET GARDEN -- 14 Crossing Water Obstacles in the Low Countries: The First Polish Armoured Division's Forcing of the Axel-Hulst Canal 16-19 September 1944 -- 15 Command, Control, Co-Ordination and Communication at Westkapelle in November 1944 - Operation Infatuate II -- 16 A Return to Static Warfare: The New Brunswick Rangers and the Breskens Pocket -- 17 Shadows of Arnhem: British Airborne Forces and the Aftermath of Operation Market Garden -- Index.

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