A Magnificent Disaster

“Reveals much of what history has tended to gloss over . . . should be a must read for all who have an interest in this operation” ( Airborne Quarterly ). After Normandy, the most spectacular Allied offensive of World War II was Operation Market Garden, which planned to join three divisions of paratroopers dropped behind German lines with massive armored columns breaking through the front. The object was to seize a crossing over the Rhine to outflank the heartland of the Third Reich and force a