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The thunder of the huge aerial armada was ear-splitting. Round airfields in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, horses and cattle panicked and bolted in the fields. In southern and eastern England thousands of people watched in amazement as the mightiest airborne force in history, complete with vehicles, artillery and equipment, took off. Their targets? A series of bridges in Holland opening up ' a backdoor' corridor for Montgomery's tanks to invade Germany and penetrate into its industrial heart, the Ruhr. The principal objective? A bridge over the Lower Rhine at a place few people had every heard of before, a place that would forever be synonymous with British courage-Arnhem. The date was September 17th, 1944. At the final conference at Montgomery's headquarters a week for, Lt.Gen. Frederick ('Boy') Browning, Deputy Commander of the First Allied Airborne Army, had asked how long it would take for the army to reach the airborne troops. Montgomery replied 'Two days'. Browning looked at the map and said 'But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far'. Arnhem was 64 miles behind the German lines. Hardback Ed with Dust Jacket 1975
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