Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to Market-Garden

by Holt, Tonie

• ISBN13: 9780850527858
• ISBN10: 0850527856
• Edition: Map
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Leo Cooper

Summary

Operation Market Garden was the name given to the US, UK and Polish airborne assault on the Arnhem, Nijmegen and Eindhoven bridges and the ill-fated 30 Corps advance to relieve the hard-pressed paras. While everyone knows that Arnhem was 'a bridge too far', few understand the true reasons for the catastrophic failure to link up. There have been numerous guide books to the fighting around Arnhem in particular but this is the first to tell the whole story as it happened. As the many thousands of satisfied Holt's Guide readers know, the authors have an uncanny knack of getting to the nub of the story, explaining the action clearly and directing the visitor to the key sites in order that he/she gets the most from any visit. With its full colour touring map The Holt's Battlefield Guide to Market Garden will prove as big a success as its forerunners, on both sides of the Atlantic and the Channel.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	6	(1)
Introduction	7	(2)
How to Use this Guide	9	(2)
Historical Summary	11	(32)
Approach: Channel Port to Leopoldsburg	43	(3)
Itinerary One: Leopoldsburg to Eindhoven	46	(38)
Itinerary Two: Eindhoven to Nijmegen	84	(47)
Itinerary Three: The Groesbeek Circuit	131	(26)
Itinerary Four: Nijmegen Centre - The Island	157	(37)
Itinerary Five: Heteren - Renkum - Oosterbeek - Arnhem - Driel	194	(78)
Allied and German Wargraves/Commemorative Associations and Events	272	(8)
Tourist Information	280	(5)
Acknowledgements/Sources	285
Sketch Maps
The Market-Garden Plan, 17 September 1944	14	(1)
The Armies Advance to the German/Dutch Borders, July-September 1944	15	(104)
The 82nd AB Division Drops and Movements, 17 September	119	(91)
1st Airborne Division and Main German Blocking Lines, 17 September	210	(4)
The Oosterbeek Perimeter, 20 September 1944	214	(32)
The John Frost Bridge Area - Then and Now	246	(37)
Index	283