For you paratroopers out there, September 15 marked the 74th anniversary of the launch of Operation Market Garden ... the largest airborne operation ever ...as in EVER.
Even though it failed to "end the war" it was a gallant effort nonetheless with troopers from all the allied commands.
The movie ain't bad, but the book is great. They both go by the title A Bridge Too Far. The movie starred "everybody" on both sides of the pond, and the book was written by Cornelius Ryan.
You might also want to check It Never Snows in September, by Robert Kershaw (a look at Market Garden from the German side), or Arnhem, by Major-General R. E. Urquhart (yes, THAT Urquhart).
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