How Arnhem was a bridge too far for Monty

Arnhem: Jumping The Rhine 1944 and 1945. By Lloyd Clark, Headline Review, €27

Perhaps no failed military operation in modern times has been referenced or portrayed as often as World War II’s Operation Market Garden.

A monumental airborne assault conducted by the British and American Allied forces in occupied Holland in autumn 1944, it was an incredibly ambitious enterprise that cost the lives of thousands of men, and was guaranteed a place in ...