To mark the launch of Antony Beevor's new history of Operation Market Garden, join Antony and Dan Snow for an exclusive book launch and talk.
To mark the launch of Antony Beevor's new history of Operation Market Garden, join Antony and Dan Snow for an exclusive book launch and talk.
The plan was a bold one - unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery - to capture the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine in September 1944. But the cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help.
Antony Beevor has found many new American, British, Dutch, Polish and German sources to reconstruct the terrible reality of this epic clash. In conversation with Dan Snow, he will talk through some of what this exciting book reveals.
Signed copies of Antony's brand new book, ‘Arnhem’, will be available on the night.
In September 1944, the Allies launched a daring airborne operation to cross the Rhine and advance into northern Germany. Market Garden remains one of the Second World War’s most famous battles.
The Second World War (1939-45) was the bloodiest conflict in human history. It split the world's nations into two opposing military alliances - the Allies and the Axis Powers.