Ryan, Cornelius, — A BRIDGE TOO FAR.
Book Club Associates, London, 1975, club edn., 478pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 10 in text maps, double page chart of command, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, an account of Operation Market-Garden, the airborne operation in September 1944 which planned to drop the US 101st and 82nd Airborne and the British 1st Airborne Divisions with the Polish 1st Parachute Brigade and seize the bridges at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, holding them until relieved by the armoured column of XXX Corps, designed to gain access to the heart of Germany and thus shorten the war but failing in the final objective, resulting in greater casualties than in the Normandy landing, lightly bumped at head of spine, pages tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems. with several short edge nicks, spine slightly sunned, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,
