A Bridge Too Far

The Second World War is widely perceived as the Good War, in other words one of the rare examples of epic struggle between clearly defined sides of Good and Evil. Those individuals, organisations and countries that participated in it, at least those on the winning side, have every reason to be proud of it. So, it isn’t surprising that such sentiments found their way onto the silver screen in the form of films so inc…

Jesus is throwing people out of heaven! Dutch girl looking up at the sky, on the afternoon of Sunday 17 September 1944. > Arnhem was the main target of Operation Market Garden … a good place from where the Ruhr could be assaulted …. attacking the Ruhr out of Arnhem would bypass the Siegfried line …. near the border in southwest Germany. From Arnhem the Allies could continue the liberation of the Netherlands …. > Whe…