Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is John Bachelor.

Conversation with my good friend Gregory Coppley, editor and publisher of

Defense and Foreign Affairs, about Market Garden.

The operation Montgomery's idea, September of 1944, to bypass the German

the German strength and drive right on to Arnhem.

The way to do this from Belgium. Way to do this from Belgium.

The way to do this was to jump in the parachute divisions, 82nd 101st,

1st Paris of the British Army, and a Polish regiment of parachutors. To take the bridges on the road

straight to Arnhem to get across the Rhine and the dream was the war would be over by Christmas will race right down Germany.

It didn't happen. They reached Arnhem but short. Bridge too far, that's the name of the story. However, new information is

that Market Garden was betrayed to the

trade by man named Anthony Blunt who became famous afterwards

as a member of the Cambridge Five but also a keeper of the Queen's pictures until he was

relieved of that duty but he was never punished in any fashion. Presumption

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