#MarketGarden

75 years today, Grandad wrote of the imminent glider flight to Oosterbeek by his Battalion, cancelled many times in the previous weeks. Of 44 officers he was one of 11

XVIII Airborne Corps

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1 of 18:The #WWII #Canadian Loan ProgramAn Operation Market Garden thread in 22 Tweets. #OMG 2 of 18:Many people know about the #American and #British forces committed to Operation Market

My hackles have been raised by Max Hastings' review of Anthony Beevor's #Arnhem book. What an obtuse, self-serving, and pompous review. The @nybooks should be embarrassed to publish this kind