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A Bridge Too Far (book)

Index A Bridge Too Far (book)

A Bridge Too Far (1974) by Cornelius Ryan gives an account of Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem by taking a series of bridges in the occupied Netherlands during World War II. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 14 relations: A Bridge Too Far (film), Allies of World War II, Antony Beevor, Arnhem, Bernard Montgomery, Cornelius Ryan, Coronet Books, Frederick Browning, Hamish Hamilton, Hardcover, Operation Market Garden, Paperback, Simon & Schuster, World War II.

  2. Allies of World War II
  3. Operation Market Garden
  4. Works about battles and operations of World War II

A Bridge Too Far (film)

A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film directed by Richard Attenborough. A Bridge Too Far (book) and a Bridge Too Far (film) are operation Market Garden.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Antony Beevor

Sir Antony James Beevor, (born 14 December 1946) is a British military historian.

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Arnhem

Arnhem (or; Arnheim; Ernems: Èrnem) is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.

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Cornelius Ryan

Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author known mainly for writing popular military history.

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Coronet Books

Coronet Books was established in 1966 as the paperback imprint of Hodder & Stoughton.

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Frederick Browning

Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague "Boy" Browning, (20 December 1896 – 14 March 1965) was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces".

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Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas, James the English form – which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form).

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Hardcover

A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944.

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Paperback

A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Allies of World War II

Operation Market Garden

Works about battles and operations of World War II

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bridge_Too_Far_(book)

Also known as A Bridge Too Far (novel).