Abundance of Valor
Resistance, Survival, and Liberation, 1944-1945
Old Saybrook : Tantor Media, 2010.
Format: Eaudiobook
Description: 1 sound file : digital.
The operation known as "Market Garden"---made famous in the book and film A Bridge Too Far---was the largest airborne assault in history up to that time. A high-risk Allied invasion of enemy territory that has become a legend of World War II, it still invites criticism from historians...
Contents:
Prologue -- The England game -- The man from Washington -- Hazardous duty -- Highlands interlude -- First Jeds into Holland -- Operation Market-Garden -- Germans everywhere -- Sunday, September 17, D-Day -- Monday, September 18, the second day -- Tuesday, September 19, the third day -- Wednesday, September 20, the fourth day -- Thursday, September 21, the fifth day -- Friday, September 22, the sixth day -- Saturday, September 23, the seventh day -- Sunday, September 24, the eighth day -- Withdrawal, the last day -- Prisoner of war -- Todd's journey begins -- Dulag Luft -- The insufferable Lord Haw Haw -- Solitary confinement -- Stolen plans to be delivered -- Oflag -- Goodbye to Bunny and Henk -- Pappy's return -- Missing in action -- The long march -- Patton's Hammelburg raid -- Rumors of evil -- Freedom -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Dutch Jedburgh teams.
Subjects:
Jedburgh (Program) -- Biography.
Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Parachute troops -- Biography.
Jedburgh (Program) -- Biography.
Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Parachute troops -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781400194230 (electronic audio bk.)
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Eaudiobook
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Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 12:53:47.
Audio file.
Electronic resource.
Read by Michael Prichard.
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 185361 KB; MP3 file size: 363219 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.