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050  0 D763.N4 |bC537 2008
100 1  Clark, Lloyd, |d1967-
245 10 Crossing the Rhine : |bbreaking into Nazi Germany, 1944 and 1945 : the greatest airborne battles in history / |cLloyd Clark.
250    First American edition.
264  1 New York : |bAtlantic Monthly Press : |bDistributed by Publishers Group West, |c2008.
300    xxviii, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps, plans ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-403) and index.
520    A British military historian offers an in-depth account of two critical offensives led by Allied troops against the Nazi power base on the Rhine, examining the strategies, military leaders, and campaign of the two airborne assaults, the events leading up to combat, the power struggle among Allied leadership, and the results of the battles on the war's outcome.
505 0  Dramatis personae -- The strategy of exploitation: The Allies, 25 Aug to 17 Sep 1944 -- Withdrawal: The Germans, 25 Aug to 17 Sep 1944 -- Chasing the dream: airborne warfare and its soldiers: the birth of parachuting to Summer 1944 -- Stitching things together: planning: 10-17 Sep 1944 -- Jumping the Rhine (1): Operation market garden: 17-18 Sep 1944 -- Permieters: Operation Market Garden, 19-21 Sep 1944 -- Touching the Rhine: Operation Market Garden: 21-26 Sep 1944 -- Riposte: The Ardennes and advance to the Rhine: Oct 1944 to March 1945 -- The deluge: planning and launching plunder varsity: 10-24 March 1945 -- Jumping the Rhine (2): Operation Varsity: 24-28 March 1945.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944.
650  0 Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xCampaigns |zNetherlands.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xCampaigns |zBelgium.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xCampaigns |zLuxembourg.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAirborne troops.
852 0   |bstacks |hD763.N4 |iC537 2008