This is a new book is

This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with the historian James Holland, his new book is Brothers in Arms,

one legendary Tank Regiments Bloody War from D-Day to V-E-Day, the Sherwood Rangers

Yeomanry.

Now we're into a big war picture.

The Allies have a long tail, but they also have a long supply line, and it's

slowing them down as they charge toward Germany. They need not only to capture the port of Antwerp, but the long passageway called the

Shelt to the port that Germans have reinforced and make it impossible for ships to get through.

At this point, James, the Operation Market Garden, which was part of the Sherwood Rangers were at the edges of it.

Market Garden was an idea to punch all the way through

and it didn't fail so much as it ran into some bad luck.

So how does the disappointment of Market Garden lead into the

winter battles for the Shelt lead into slowing the charge into Germany down.

How do they all fit together, James?

Well, the idea for Market Garden is not a bad one on paper

because the idea is that the Seifield line,

that West Wall, the German border border defenses runs up alongside Belgium and France,

and Luxembourg, but it doesn't really run up into kind of the northern stretch of Holland,

because Holland stretches round into kind of northern Germany and there's no border defenses

between northern Dutch border and Germany.

So the idea is to get across the river Rhine, which becomes very, very big further south, but is not so big at Arnhem in Northern Holland.

And so the idea is to kind of sort of punch a line with British 30 Corps to secure this road

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