The largest airborne drop of the war. Ryan masterfully presents the background planning, the efforts of commanders to fulfill the plan, and the tough realities faced by the common soldiers and Dutch civilians at the sites of battle. This person on this date at this time did this thing and that other person over at this place at another time did that thing etc. The incursion of 15-17,000 Allied casualties made it a costly disappointmeI found this a terrific rendition of a disastrous Allied campaign in World War 2 to break through into Germany at Arnheim in the Netherlands in September 1944. In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces of the Ameri My favorite war movie is "A Bridge Too Far." by Book Club Associates He got the pathos and the tragedy of Market Garden right, and he lays the blame squarely where it belonged. The paratroopers held as long as possible for the meetup of the XXX Armored Corps, bur Model's troops held them up far too long. (Military Division) of the Order "in recognition of gallant and, distinguished services in Sicily" Supplement to The London Gazette, March 23, 1944A member of the 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment claims there were no more than 200 men involved. Arnhem's is the crucial bridge, the last means of escape for the German forces in the Netherlands and an excellent route to Germany for Allied forces. Even though the battle recounted here took place well before I was born, I feel deeply indebted to the men who fought so bravely and bittered for the bad planning that led so many to suffering and death. What is surprising is how unsuccessful large-scale airborne operations have been throughout history. Details of superhuman efforts, heroism, and loss, provide a moving portrayal of the greatest generations courage and sacrifice.Ryan was born in Dublin. I've been looking into Airborne operations lately as I just wrote a scene where one of my characters parachutes into France on D-Day-- the biggest drop ever. Focusing on a vast cast of characters -- from Dutch civilians to British and American strategists to common soldiers and commanders -- Ryan brings to life one of the most daring and ill-fated operations of the war.

Ryan was born in Dublin. The movie's big and expensive and filled with stars, but it's not an epic. A Bridge Too Far is their story.Cornelius Ryan’s final book of 3 regarding World War II, a Bridge Too Far details the bold failed Market Garden operation. In terms of scope, its massive deployment of over 40,000 airborne troops delivered by parachute and glider was larger than used in D-Day or in Italy. Prior to the time it was published in 1974, the Market Garden failure hadn’t received much attention by historians. Yes, but given all Mr. Ryan's work, who can begrudge him a paltry 600 pages? Even Sir Lawrence Olivier is in it. Even Sir Lawrence Olivier is in it. We see how the common soldier viewed the events, the officers, the generals, field marshals, the people in the cities and villages, the enemy and their response. It is more detailed and less of a narrative history than Cornelius Ryan's other famous book "The Longest Day" but is still extremely readable. Air filming was done in the first weeks of September 1976, culminating in a series of air drops of a total of 1,000 men.Aircraft 6171 doubled as the camera ship on most formations, with a camouflaged Sufficient American tanks, jeeps, and trucks of World War II vintage were found because many of the vehicles were being discarded from European military (almost entirely reserve) units, especially from Greece and Turkey. The list goes on and on. The author here does and excellent job connecting you to the people that went through the events he writes about. Perhaps this was on purpose, but there was no energy in his retelling, he simply read the words it seems.Completed thirty years after the battle, A Bridge Too Far has complete coverage of Operation Market Garden, from the discussions leading up to it through the aftermath and results. Ryan mixes corroborated first hand accounts of the battle with accepted military facts. We had plans to visit the area the next This is a history book that reads like a novel. An audacious but risky operation. "such an exercise in wretched excess, such a mindless series of routine scenes, such a boringly violent indulgence in all the blood and guts and moans they could find, that by the end we're prepared to speculate that maybe Levine went two or even three bridges too far. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of A Bridge Too Far was the title of Ryan’s book upon which the movie was based. The plan was flawed, and trying to run an entire corps up a road that was barely one tank wide should have been enough to kill the plan...as it was, it was not, and some 8000 British paras, along with thousands of Americans and Dutch civil Simply one of the best military histories out there.

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