A Bridge Too Far
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
In September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — with the audacious aim of capturing a series of bridges across the Netherlands and ending World War II before Christmas. A Bridge Too Far chronicles this catastrophic gamble with the precision of a journalist and the narrative drive of a master storyteller, reconstructing the harrowing nine-day battle through the testimonies of thousands of soldiers and civilians who lived and died by its outcome. Cornelius Ryan pieces together a mosaic of courage, miscalculation, and tragic heroism, centering on the doomed British paratroopers who held the bridge at Arnhem against overwhelming German forces, outnumbered and cut off from relief. Ryan's meticulous research and his gift for humanising the vast machinery of war elevate this work far beyond conventional military history, placing individual voices at the heart of a grand strategic disaster. His signature technique — weaving together dozens of personal accounts into a single, thundering narrative — creates an immersive, almost cinematic experience that defined the standard for narrative non-fiction about the Second World War. A shattering portrait of ambition colliding with reality, A Bridge Too Far forces the reader to ask whether the line between bold genius and fatal overreach can ever truly be drawn before it is too late.
Author: Cornelius Ryan
Format: Hardback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
In September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — with the audacious aim of capturing a series of bridges across the Netherlands and ending World War II before Christmas. A Bridge Too Far chronicles this catastrophic gamble with the precision of a journalist and the narrative drive of a master storyteller, reconstructing the harrowing nine-day battle through the testimonies of thousands of soldiers and civilians who lived and died by its outcome. Cornelius Ryan pieces together a mosaic of courage, miscalculation, and tragic heroism, centering on the doomed British paratroopers who held the bridge at Arnhem against overwhelming German forces, outnumbered and cut off from relief. Ryan's meticulous research and his gift for humanising the vast machinery of war elevate this work far beyond conventional military history, placing individual voices at the heart of a grand strategic disaster. His signature technique — weaving together dozens of personal accounts into a single, thundering narrative — creates an immersive, almost cinematic experience that defined the standard for narrative non-fiction about the Second World War. A shattering portrait of ambition colliding with reality, A Bridge Too Far forces the reader to ask whether the line between bold genius and fatal overreach can ever truly be drawn before it is too late.