A Bridge Too Far

by Cornelius Ryan

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  SELECTED ARTICLES

  “Arnhem Diary,” Reconnaissance Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Autumn, 1947).

  “Arnhem Was Their Finest Hour,” Soldier, Vol. 13 (September 1957).

  “Battle of Desperation, The,” Time Magazine, October 2, 1944.

  Best, C. E., M.M., “The Mediums at Arnhem,” Gunner, Vol. 33, No. 1 (January, 1951).

  Bestebreurtje, Maj. A. D., “The Airborne Operations in the Netherlands in Autumn 1944,” Allegemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift, Vol. 92 (1946), No. 6.

  Breese, Maj. C. F. O., “The Airborne Operations in Holland, Sept. 1944,” The Border Magazine, September, 1948 (Part 1), and March, 1949 (Part II).

  Burne, Alfred H., “Arnhem,” The Fighting Forces, 1944.

  Chatterton, Brig. G. J. S., “The Glider Pilot Regiment at Arnhem,” The Eagle, Summer, 1954.

  Colman, D. E., “The Phantom Legion,” The Army Quarterly, April, 1962.

  Courtney, W. B., “Army in the Sky,” Collier’s, November, 1944.

  Cousens, Maj. H. S., “Arnhem 17th-26th September, 1944,” from The Spring of Shillelagh, Vol. 28, No. 322 (Spring-Summer, 1948).

  Exton, Hugh M., “The Guards Armoured Division in Operation Market-Garden,” Armoured Cavalry Journal, 1948.

  Falls, Cyril, “Arnhem—A Stage in Airborne Tactics,” Illustrated London News, October, 1945.

  Fijalski, Stanley, “Echoes of Arnhem,” Stand-to, 1950.

  Gellhorn, Martha, “Death of a Dutch Town,” Collier’s, December, 1944.

  Greelen, Lothar van, “The Puzzle of Arnhem Solved,” Deutsche Wochen Zeitung, 1964.

  Herford, M. E. M., “All in the Day’s Work” (Parts 1 and 2), The Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1952.

  “How the Supplies Reached Arnhem,” Journal of the Royal Army Service Corps, Vol. 69, No. 2 (November, 1944).

  Intelligence Corps, “With the Airborne at Arnhem,” Notes of Interest, Vol. 8 (1915).

  Lister, Evelyn, “An Echo of Arnhem,” British Legion Journal, September, 1950.

  McCulloch, C. A., “The Epic of Arnhem,” Springbok, September, 1955.

 
Mackay, Maj. E. M., “The Battle of Arnhem Bridge,” Blackwood’s Magazine, October, 1945.

  Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard L., “21st [British] Army Group in the Campaign in North-West Europe, 1944-45,” The Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Vol. 90, No. 560 (November, 1945).

  Packe, Michael St. J., “The Royal Army Service Corps at Arnhem,” The Journal of the R.A.S.C., November, 1945.

  St. Aubyn, Lt. The Hon. Piers, “Arnhem,” The King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle, 1946.

  Smith, Robert, “With the R.A.M.C. at Arnhem,” Stand-to, Vol. 1, No. 8 (October-November, 1950).

  Stevenson, Lt. J., “Arnhem Diary,” Reconnaissance Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Autumn, 1947).

  Tatham-Waiter, Maj. A. D., D.S.O., “Escape from Arnhem,” The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle, Vol. 48 (1946).

  Taylor, Lt. Col. George, D.S.O., “With 30 Corps to Arnhem,” Ça Ira, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June, 1949).

  Tompkins, Col. Rathvon McC., “The Bridge,” Marine Corps Gazette, April, 1951, and May, 1951.

  Tooley, Lt. Col. I. P., “Artillery Support at Arnhem,” The Field Artillery Journal, April, 1945.

  Watkins, Maj. Ernest, “Arnhem, the Landing and the Bridge,” British Army Bureau of Current Affairs, No. 83 (1944).

  Williams, F. Lt. A. A., “I Was at Arnhem,” The Royal Air Force Journal, December, 1944.

  Wilmot, Chester, “What Really Happened at Arnhem,” Stand-to, Vol. 1, No. 8 (1950).

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  Wood, Alan, “How Arnhem Was Reported,” Pegasus, July and October, 1946.

  -----, “News from Arnhem,” Pegasus, October, 1949.

  Wooding, F. B., “The Airborne Pioneers,” The Royal Pioneer, Vol. 7, No. 30 (March, 1952).

  GERMAN MANUSCRIPTS, MILITARY STUDIES AND CAPTURED DOCUMENTS

  Bittrich, SS General Wilhelm, CO II SS Panzer Corps., H.Q. Battle Orders; Report on the Activities of the II SS Panzer Corps., Aug.-Nov. 1944, together with maps; Bittrich’s account of Arnhem Battle, September 17-26, 1944; Incoming reports from Commanders of 9th and 10th SS PZ Divisions; Personal papers, diaries and maps—as given to the author.

  Blumentritt, General Gunther, OB West, A Study in Command, Atlantic Wall to Siegfried Line, Office of the Chief of Military History (hereafter referred to as O.C.M.H.), Department of Army, U.S.A., MS. B-344; Manuscripts, notes and maps as given to the author.