![]() ![]() It was this that prompted Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, Deputy Commander of the 1st Allied Airborne Army, to say to Montgomery at a military conference on 10 September 1944, ‘Sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far.’įrom the inception, everything hinged on nothing going wrong but in war, things always go wrong, for the enemy – his strength, deployment, intentions, actions, willpower – is a perennial unknown. The spearhead was expected to reach Arnhem in two days. ![]() Backed-up behind the Sherman tanks of the Irish Guards in the van were some 20,000 vehicles. Much of the road was elevated on a high embankment surrounded by soft ground dissected by dykes where tanks could not operate. The British armour was required to advance some 64 miles down a single road on a two-vehicle front. Even without the Panzer divisions, the risks were high. Pictured here in the mid-1960s, he died of cancer in 1974, just months after the publication of A Bridge Too Far, his last and finest book.Ī pervasive sense of doom then hangs over everything that follows. In his job as a war correspondent, Cornelius Ryan travelled extensively, including to the Pacific and Palestine, before eventually settling in the United States in the early 1950s, where he became a naturalised citizen. ![]()
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