Quite. The most impressive thing about the whole operation is how very close it did come to working.Waterhorse wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 2:41 pm I for one very quickly came to a view of "how the hell was this ever supposed to work?"
Arnhem book recommendation?
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No plan survives first contact with the dice.
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Pen & Sword have a few titles reduced just now:
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It Never Snows in September is an excellent book from the German perspective. Well worth a read...Robert Kershaw is the author
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One of the things about Arnhem, is that from planning to execution, it was one of the most successful operations by any force in the whole of WW2 (95% of objectives achieved).
kershaw is always readable.
kershaw is always readable.
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A Drop Too Many by Frost is on special for $1.99 on kindle atm.