Buy this book on-line TOUT, KEN: : IN THE SHADOW OF ARNHEM: THE BATTLE FOR THE LOWER MAAS,SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 1944UK.STROUD,GLOUCESTER.SUTTON PUBLISHING LIMITED,2003. ISBN 0750928212
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,montage'd monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj, with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned but still bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xivpp+2-242pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table, acknowledgements,b/w maps(4),12 chapters, 16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp114/5,a glossary,notes and references,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication and contents list/table.
The Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 has been much publicised,with its extraordinary parachute drop and the gallant defence by Frost's few men of the bridge at Arnhem. Epics like Cornelius Ryan's 'A Bridge Too Far' have shown in print and on the big screen just how close the campaign was to success.However,its relative failure left the Allies holding a thirty-mile stretch of a single road with the enemy firmly entrenched on both sides. The village of St oedenrode,at the base of this road,was liberated on 18 September, but Allied troops did not capture Schijindel,four miles away, until 23 October.
The Arnhem debacle saw vast stretches of Holland to the left and right of the salient occupied by enemy forces, strategically placed to menace any future plans.These areas of Holland,criss-crossed by unfordable rivers and canals and closely populated by small villages,had to be cleared by Allied troops in platoon or company strength,fighting in tight situations against bitter skilled resistance,losing one or two casualties at a time.There was none of the awesome and inspirational massing of troops and armour seen in the battle for Normandy,for Arnhem itself,or in the Battle of the Bulge yet to come.
Interweaving his engaging narrative style with the eyewitness accounts and personal reminiscences of British,Canadian and Polish troops,Ken Tout reveals how these men performed their heroic deeds. They suffered and died in unheralded, largely forgotten minor skirmishes,but on a scale far exceeding the casualties of the immediate assault on Arnhem.They deserve to be remembered.This is their story.
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