"1900 - 1999" . . "1939 - 1945" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "\"On September 17, 1944, over 2,000 transport aircraft lifted off from airfields across England and set a course for Holland. They were the first wave of the largest airborne operation in history, code-named Operation Market Garden. Their task was to open a sixty-mile corridor for Allied ground forces from the Belgian border to Arnhem on the Lower Rhine. Nine days later, the remnants of the British 1st Airborne Division were evacuated from a precarious foothold seven miles west of Arnhem, having failed utterly. William Buckingham's ... account of this infamous military operation, from conception to costly failure\"--Page 4 of cover."@en . . "Military history"@en . . . . . . "Arnhem, 1944 : a reappraisal"@en . "History"@en . . . . . . "Arnhem 1944" . . "Arnhem 1944"@en . . . . . . . "Veldslagen." . . "Tweede Wereldoorlog." . . "Operation Market Garden, 1944." . . "Arnheim" . . "Arnhem." . . . . "Arnhem (Netherlands)" . . "Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944." . .