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