The Devil’s Birthday: The Bridges to Arnhem 1944  9952

  • Foreword   General Sir John Hackett
  1. ‘Coins burning holes in SHAEF’s pocket’
  2. ‘To grab the bridges with thunderclap surprise’
  3. ‘But the Germans, General, the Germans’
  4. ‘It was evident that the initial flight … would be hazardous’
  5. ‘Signal failures were no new phenomenon’
  6. ‘The drop was better than had ever been experienced’
  7. ‘A tale you will tell your grandchildren’
  8. ‘Oh, how I wish I had ever had such powerful means at my disposal’
  9. ‘They proved to be among the bravest and most patriotic people we had liberated’
  10. ‘A grossly untidy situation’
  11. ‘The retention of the high ground South of Nijmegen was of greater importance’
  12. ‘It is against text-book teaching to break off an engagement and withdraw from the battlefield in broad daylight’
  13. ‘Jim, never try to fight an entire Corps off one road’
  14. ‘Touch them and they react’
  15. ‘It was the outstanding independent parachute battalion action of the war’
  16. ‘I’m proud to meet the commander of the greatest division in the world today’
  17. ‘Der Kessel’
  18. ‘Major-General Sosabowski proved himself to be extremely difficult to work with’
  19. ‘I regard general situation on rivers as now very unsatisfactory’
  20. ‘Thou shalf not be afraid for any terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day’
  21. ‘About the blackest moment of my life’
  22. ‘He was certain in his own mind that no reinforcement could arrive in time’
  23. ‘The position held by the Airborne Division had no military value’
  24. ‘The night was made for clandestine exits’
  25. ‘In the years to come … noone will remember that two American divisions fought their hearts out in the Dutch canal country’
  26. ‘Operation “Market” was a brilliant success’
  27. Afterthought
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