The 1977 war epic boasts one of the most impressive ensemble casts ever assembled and is streaming on BBC iPlayer, but it's ...

Operation Market Garden, launched on September 17, 1944, aimed to drop 35,000 troops behind enemy lines to capture Dutch bridges all the way to Arnhem, near the German border. Meanwhile, a huge ...

Hundreds of Nato troops and veterans of Operation Market Garden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the audacious plan which sought to bring a quick end to World War Two.

In sharp contrast, audience reviews of the film were extremely positive and laudatory, with one viewer writing: “One of the ...

About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, more than than during the D-Day landings in France two months earlier. The British 1st Airborne Division led the ...

Parachutists Commemorate 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath ...

For Operation Market Garden, he arrived in the nearby village of Wolfheze a day before the mass drops at Ginkel Heath in September 1944. Sign up for the Breaking News newsletter.

About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, ... across the Rhine at Arnhem in a battle immortalized in the book and star-studded 1977 movie “A Bridge Too ...

One of the soldiers involved, 99-year-old Geoff Roberts, was among 12 World War II veterans present on a warm day. For Operation Market Garden, he arrived in the nearby village of Wolfheze a day ...

Operation Market Garden was an audacious plan that aimed to seize back key bridges and roads from Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands, so that Allied forces in Belgium could advance into the ...