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Operation Market Garden (September 17–25, 1944) was an Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in World War II. It made large-scale use of airborne forces whose tactical objectives were to secure a series of bridges over the main rivers of the German-occupied Netherlands to allow rapid advance by armored units while outflanking extant strong German forces opposing the allied salient in Normandy. The strategic purpose was to allow an early and easy Allied crossing of the... full article at wikipedia

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A Bridge Too Far	1977
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Walter Model
Gerd von Rundstedt
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
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A Bridge Too Far	Cornelius Ryan
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