A Bridge Too Far (Hodder Great Reads)

by Cornelius Ryan (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $13.39

  The true story of the greatest battle of World War II and the basis of the 1977 film of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough.

  The Battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles of World War II, was as daring as it was ill-fated.

  It cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day.

  This is the whole compelling story, told through the vast cast of characters involved. From Dutch civilians to British and American strategists, its scope and ambition is unparalleled, superbly recreating the terror and suspense, the heroism and tragedy of this epic operation.

  'I know of no other work of literature of World War II as moving, as awesome and as accurate in its portrayal of human courage.' - General James A Gavin

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.47

  The classic account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War II. A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day. In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces of the American and British armies behind German lines to capture the crucial bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem. Focusing on a vast cast of characters from Dutch civilians to British and American strategists to common soldiers and commanders Ryan brings to life one of the most daring and ill-fated operations of the war. A Bridge Too Far superbly recreates the terror and suspense, the heroism and tragedy of this epic operation, which ended in bitter defeat for the Allies.