Frank van Lunteren

The Battle of the Bridges

The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism that still remain unsung. This book draws on a plethora of previously unpublished sources to shed new light on the expl

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Casemate
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781612002323
• ISBN-10: 1612002323
• Artikelnr.: 40110214

Autorenporträt

Frank van Lunteren was born and raised in Arnhem, the Netherlands. While studying history in Nijmegen, in the spring of 2001, he established contact with a WWII veteran of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Shortly after he graduated as a historian, Van Lunteren was guest speaker at the August 2007 Convention of the 504th PIR Association. There, veteran Francis Keefe (1924-2021) asked him to write "a book on the entire regiment." The research process of over twenty years culminated in five volumes: Birth of a Regiment (May 1942-September 1943), Spearhead of the Fifth Army (September 1943-April 1944), The Battle of the Bridges (April 1944-November 1944), Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper (November 1944-February 1945), End of an Odyssey (February 1945-January 1946). From activation to the New York Victory Parade, Colonel Reuben Tucker's troopers are followed throughout World War II.