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  • The Devil's Bridge

  • The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944
  • By: Anthony Tucker-Jones
  • Narrated by: Roger May
  • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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The Devil's Bridge

By: Anthony Tucker-Jones
Narrated by: Roger May
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Bloomsbury presents The Devil's Bridge by Anthony Tucker-Jones, read by Roger May.

This fascinating title offers a new look at Operation Market Garden and the Arnhem campaign from the perspective of the German forces who defended against the Allies.

In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm ‘Willi’ Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his command lay directly in the path of a major Allied thrust: the 17 September 1944 launch of the largest airborne and glider operation in the history of warfare.

Codenamed Operation Market Garden, it was intended to outflank the German West Wall and ‘bounce’ the Rhine at Arnhem, from where the Allies could strike into the Ruhr, Nazi Germany’s industrial heartland. Such a move could have ended the war.

However, Market Garden and the battle for Arnhem were a disaster for the Allies. Put together in little over a week and lacking in flexibility, the operation became an all-or-nothing race against time. The plan to link the airborne divisions by pushing an armoured division up a sixty-five-mile corridor was optimistic at best, and the British drop zones were not only too far from Arnhem Bridge, but also directly above two recuperating SS Panzer divisions.

The Devil's Bridge explores the operation from the perspective of the Germans as renowned historian Anthony Tucker-Jones examines how they were able to mobilise so swiftly and effectively in spite of depleted troops and limited intelligence.

©2020 Anthony Tucker-Jones (P)2020 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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A bit challenging to stay focused on

I'm not sure why, but I found it difficult to stay on point with this book. The topic was of interest to me. But it took me a long time to get through and most of the time I felt my mind wandering. It wasn't the narrator. Too bad, because this is an interesting set of historical events.

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