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Drop Too Many - Softcover

Frost, John

 
9780811734868: Drop Too Many
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811734862 ISBN 13: 9780811734868
Verlag: Stackpole Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

* A World War II memoir about one of the most heroic defenses of all time

* Expands on a story told in Cornelius Ryan's classic book A Bridge Too Far, which was made into a movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Frost

* Also includes airborne actions in North Africa and Sicily

As part of Operation Market Garden, the Allies' September 1944 attempt to secure crossings over the Rhine River in the Netherlands, the British 2nd Parachute Regiment, commanded by John Frost, landed outside Arnhem with orders to seize bridges inside the city. The paratroopers did so but were soon cut off from other Allied units. Grossly outnumbered, Frost and his men fought off German armored and infantry assaults for three days and four nights. Finally forced to surrender, Frost spent the remainder of the war in German captivity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John D. Frost remained in the British Army after the war, rising to the rank of major general. He died in 1993.

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Verlag
Stackpole Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0811734862
ISBN 13 
9780811734868
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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