Beevor on Arnhem

Antony Beevor explains why Operation Market Garden was doomed to failure

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May 17, 2018 at 5:18 pm

Bestselling military historian Antony Beevor discusses his new book, which outlines why 1944’s Operation Market Garden was one of the biggest disasters of the Allied war effort

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