Hell's Highway

by Koskimaki, George E.

• ISBN13: 9781932033052
• ISBN10: 193203305X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc

Summary

'Hell's Highway' is a history most of which has never before been written. It is adventure recorded by those who lived it and put into context by an author who was also there. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told through the personal stories of 612 contributors of written and oral accounts of the "Screaming Eagles" part in the attempt to liberate the Netherlands. George Koskimaki is an expert in weaving together individual recollections to make a compelling and uniquely first hand account of the bravery and deprivations suffered by the troops, their hopes, fears, triumphs and tragedies as well as those of dutch civilians caught up in the action. There have been many books published on Operation Market Garden and there will surely be more. This book, however, gets to the heart of the action. The "big picture" which most histories paint, here, is just the context for the real history on the ground.

Table of Contents

Foreword	i
Acknowledgments	iii
Maps	v
Glossary/U.S. Army Rankings	vi
Introductory Review	1	(4)
English Summer	5	(9)
Occupation	14	(10)
Liberation	24	(14)
Pathfinders	38	(9)
Parachute Drops	47	(21)
The Glider Landings	68	(31)
The Son Bridge	99	(9)
Eindhoven	108	(27)
Fight for Best	135	(31)
St. Oedenrode	166	(25)
Veghel	191	(20)
1st Battalion Moves North	211	(23)
Eerde	234	(12)
Division CP at Son	246	(24)
Black Friday	270	(21)
Send Us Some Tanks!	291	(13)
Third Road Cut	304	(19)
Behind Enemy Lines	323	(21)
Watch On The Rhine	344	(25)
Opheusden	369	(30)
Dodewaard and Hien	399	(11)
Other Memorable Actions	410	(23)
Epilogue	433	(2)
Remember September	435	(1)
Bibliography	436	(1)
Contributors	437	(7)
Index	444