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The procedure known as “Market Garden”—made famous in the e book and film A Bridge Too Significantly—was the greatest airborne assault in history up compared to that time, a high-risk Allied invasion of foe territory that has been a story of World War II, even as it still invites criticism from historians. Now a thrilling and revelatory new e book re-creates the procedure as nothing you've seen prior, revealing for the very first time the full adventures of the daring “Jedburgh” paratroopers whose exploits were almost unimaginably risky and heroic.

Kicked off on September 17, 1944, Market Garden was designed to secure essential bridges in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands by the parachute assault conducted by three Allied airborne divisions. Shoot of the bridges allows a swift advance and crossing of the Rhine by British ground pushes. Jedburgh groups—Allied Special Causes—were slipped into the Netherlands to train and use the Dutch amount of resistance in support of the larger procedure. Centered on new firsthand testimony of survivors and declassified documents, Large quantity of Valor concentrates on the three groups that handled farthest behind foe lines, the nine men whose treacherous missions resulted in deaths, catches, and hair-breadth escapes.

Here in unprecedented details are the heat and stench of petrol, oil, and sweat in the troop carriers exceeding, the amazing (and misleading) original success of the daylight parachute landings, and the fatal, brutally effective German response, especially by crack SS armored models in the blood-soaked town of Arnhem. Large quantity of Valor portrays with stunning verisimilitude the experience of Lt. Harvey Allan Todd, who fought from a encircled position against mind-boggling numbers of the foe before surviving capture, near-starvation, interrogation, and solitary confinement in German POW camps, and Maj. John “Pappy” Olmsted, who made a harmful voyage, in disguise, from safe house to safe house through foe place until finally achieving friendly lines.

With piercing criticism of the mission’s ultimate inability from defective use of intellect—and Field Marshall Montgomery’s distrust of the Dutch underground—Large quantity of Valor is a brutally honest and truly inspiring account of struggling men in a noble cause who performed their jobs with incredible honor and courage.