Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

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🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In a talk that he delivered at our 2019 BBC History Magazine History Weekend in Winchester, bestselling military historian Antony Beevor tells the story of Operation Market Garden – the 1944 Allied plan to jump the Rhine that ended in failure. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:10.2	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.
1:25.0	I'm Ellie Gawthorthorne.
1:27.1	On today's episode, we have another in our recorded lecture series from our 2019 History Weekend event in Winchester.
1:35.2	This time, it's the best-selling military historian Anthony Beaver, speaking about his most recent book, Arnhem, the Battle for the Bridges, 1944.
1:51.0	Thank you very much indeed.
1:55.0	At dawn on Sunday the 17th of September 1944,
2:00.0	squadrons of medium bombers and mosquito fighter bombers
2:03.8	took off for the Netherlands.
2:05.7	This was the overture to Operation Market Garden.
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