This is a truly stunning book. Over 230 glossy paper pages loaded with both colour and black-and-white photographs, many of them meticulously researched to provide additional explanations, down to who actually features in those photographs. The book details the 1st Borders' run up to Operation Market-Garden, and it's participation in and around Arnhem and Oosterbeek in September 1944, the latter done on a day-by-day basis. This written account features and names many of the characters within the battalion, and the part they played in the fateful battle.
I cannot recommend this work highly enough to anyone who wants to explore the role played by one of the glider-borne Air-Landing battalions, who often get overlooked or over-shadowed ... Read More:
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Seller:ronald789, Rating: 4.9 Condition: verygood Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days; From: PA, United States Comments: Extremely rare very good+ condition very lightly read hardback book with a dustjacket that has one very small tear in the back bottom edge only,very clean no highlighting,underlining or notes Dispatched from Pennsylvania USA by airmail Please allow 7-10 business days for delivery