D-Day: Piercing the Atlantic Wall

History

Kershaw, Robert J.

Military

Ian Allan

War without Garlands : Operation Barbarossa, 1941 - 1942

Europe

Sarpedon

Once more reprinted, this excellent work records the German view of Operation 'Market Garden' and the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. Based on extensive research and containing new material it uniquely chronicles that struggle through the eyes of the German soldier and analyses the reasons for the eventual outcome.

It Never Snows In September: The German View Of Market-Garden And The Battle Of Arnhem September 1944

Ian Allan Pub

In this long-awaited book, Robert Kershaw follows up his best-selling account of Operation Market Garden―It Never Snows in September―to focus on the experiences of Dutch civilians and British and German soldiers in one street while fighting to survive at the heart of one of the most intense battles of World War II. He tells the story from the perspective of what could be seen or heard from the Utrechtseweg, a road that runs seven kilometers from the Arnhem railway station west to Oosterbeek.This stretch of road saw virtually every major event during the fighting for Arnhem―the legendary “Bridge Too Far”―during September 1944. The story is about the disintegration of a wealthy Dutch suburb caught unexpectedly in the war it had escaped for so long. The book charts the steady destruction of an exclusive rural community, where wealthy Dutch holiday-makers had relaxed before the war. The destruction of this pretty village is charted through the eyes of British, Polish and German soldiers fighting amid its confused and horrified inhabitants. It portrays a collage of human experiences, sights, sounds, visceral fears and emotion as ordinary people seek to cope when their street is so suddenly and unexpectedly overwhelmed in a savage battle using the most deadly weapons of the day.Kershaw's new research reveals the extent to which most people in this battle, whether soldiers or civilians, saw only what was immediately happening to them, with no idea of the larger picture. Many original Dutch, German and English accounts have been unearthed through interviews, diary accounts and letters, as well as post-combat reports charting the same incidents from both sides. The story is told as a docudrama following the fortunes of participants within a gripping narrative format. Holland had not witnessed conflict since the Napoleonic wars. What happens when your street, where you have lived for generations, is suddenly overwhelmed by conflict? A Street in Arnhem―with its alternating revelations of horror and courage―tells that story and provides some of the answers.

Street In Arnhem

Americas

On 17 September 1944 the historic Battle of Arnhem began with the massed parachute drop of thousands of Allied troops. Their mission was to create a bridgehead from which operations could be conducted against German forces in the Ruhr. Ten days later, the British were forced to withdraw. They would not return for six long months...Despite a plethora of books on the Market-Garden operation, most notably Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge Too Far, the German perspective has never been fully examined. It has taken over 45 years for a comprehensive account to emerge. Exhaustive research of the few remaining German archival documents, corroborated by numerous eye-witness and diary accounts, including much previously unpublished material, means that this new book is certain to stimulate renewed debate concerning one of the most controversial engagements of World War II.A number of historians have felt that a revision of some parts of the Arnhem legend is long overdue. 50 years after the foundation of the Parachute Regiment, its part in earning its most prestigious battle honour can now, at last, be viewed from 'the other side of the hill'. A major work of military history, 'It Never Snows In September', and the events it chronicles, has much relevance for the study and conduct of warfare today.

It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

Hippocrene Books

This brilliant collection of German and Allied eyewitness accounts presents useful insights into the failures and successes of both sides and shows why the battle for Normandy developed into such a long and bitter struggle.

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It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-garden and the Battle of Arnhem

Crowood Press

The airborne landing at Arnhem was immortalizing in the film A Bridge to Far, but this is the first account making extensive use of German sources.

It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

Da Capo Press

Goodall Publications Ltd

In the spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Adolf Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's Soviet Union. The German army quickly advanced far into Russia, as the Soviet forces suffered defeat after defeat. With barbaric savagery displayed on both sides, the Eastern Front was a campaign in which no prisoners were taken and no quarter given. Although Hitler's decision to launch 'Barbarossa' was one of the crucial turning points of the war, at first the early successes of the German army pointed to the continuing triumph of the Nazi state. As time wore on, however, the Eastern Front became a byword for death, and transferral to the front was the fate feared most by Germany's foot soldiers.\nRobert Kershaw examines the campaign through the eyes of the German forces who were sent to fight and die for Hitler's grandiose plans. Drawing on German war diaries, post-combat reports and secret SS files, he provides an enthralling account of the campaign from the perspective of the ordinary soldier. The Eastern Front remains a subject of continuing interest and speculation among historians, and this seminal account of the battle will be fascinating reading, adding much to our depth of knowledge about this brutal period of World War 2 history.

War Without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942

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D-Day: Piercing the Atlantic Wall

War without Garlands : Operation Barbarossa, 1941 - 1942

It Never Snows In September: The German View Of Market-Garden And The Battle Of Arnhem September 1944

Street In Arnhem

It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

D-Day: Piercing the Atlantic Wall

It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-garden and the Battle of Arnhem

It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

War Without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942