You all have an opinion about operation Market Garden, but chances are you don't have all the facts. "A Bridge Too Far" is just a Hollywood view of Market Garden, not particularly accurate or complete. My two books are very much up-to-date and based on verifiable primary sources.
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Review
"Poulussen's work identifies a number of causes why Market Garden failed that do not marry with the Beevor/Hastings/ABTF school of pop historiography."
Bibliography
Instead repeating what has been written in so many Market Garden books after WW2, I decided to focus on primary sources, investigate and use footnotes.
Primary sources
- All ULTRA messages of August and September
- Clous-Veen diary
- Combat interviews with 82 and 101 AIRBORNE DIVISION personnel taken shortly after operation MARKET GARDEN
- Dempsey diary
- Directives from Montgomery
- G2-reports of 82 AIRBORNE DIVISION
- Intelligence log, operations log, messages and situation reports from 43 INFANTRY DIVISION archive
- Intelligence log, operations log, operations instructions, outgoing messages and situation reports from 30 CORPS archive
- Intelligence reports from GUARDS ARMOURED DIVISION archive
- Leigh-Mallory diary
- Letter Taylor to Dempsey and Field Order No. 1 from 101 AIRBORNE DIVISION archive
- Letters of Instruction from Bradley
- Messages from Phantom wireless network
- Minutes of conference 10 September from 1 ALLIED AIRBORNE ARMY archive
- Montgomery diary
- Outline operation "Sixteen", instructions and messages from 1 AIRBORNE CORPS archive
- Patton diary
- Unit journal of 508 PIR
- War diaries of 4/7 ROYAL DRAGOON GUARDS, 5 ROYAL DRAGOON GUARDS, 13/18 ROYAL HUSSARS, 15/19 ROYAL HUSSARS, 44 ROYAL TANK REGIMENT, 1/7 QUEENS ROYAL, 112 PIONEER COMPANY and Canadian 20 FIELD COMPANY and 23 FIELD COMPANY
- War diaries of all battalions within GUARDS ARMOURED DIVISION
- War diaries of all battalions, brigades, field regiments and field companies within 43 INFANTRY DIVISION
- War diary German 88 KORPS
Military maps
- Daily situation maps used by American high command
- Daily situation maps used by German high command
- Original AMS/GSGS maps, used in operation MARKET GARDEN
Military documents
- BATTALION AND SMALL UNIT STUDY NO. 1 (1945) by American historical section European Theater of Operations
- REPORT NO. 50 (1952) by Canadian historical officer Stacey
- REPORT ON OPERATION "MARKET" (1945) by 1 AIRBORNE DIVISION HQ
- STRATEGY OF THE CAMPAIGN IN WESTERN EUROPE 1944-1945 (1945) by American GENERAL BOARD
- THE AMERICAN DIVISIONS IN OPERATION MARKET by American historical officer Westover
- THE CAPTURE OF THE NIJMEGEN BRIDGE by 30 CORPS (WO 205/1125)
Published books
- AIRBORNE OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II (1956) by Warren
- BREAKOUT AND PURSUIT (1993) by Blumenson
- CORPS COMMANDER (1977) by Horrocks
- CRUSADE IN EUROPE (1948) by Eisenhower
- FIGHTING SPIRIT (2012) by Didden
- FLASHBACK: A SOLDIER’S STORY (1985) by Richardson
- LOST AT NIJMEGEN (2011) by Poulussen
- MARKET GARDEN THEN AND NOW (2002) by Margry
- NORMANDY TO VICTORY (2008) by Sylvan and Smith
- THE 508TH CONNECTION (2013) by Boroughs
- THE EVER OPEN EYE (1998) by Wilson
- THE HARVEST OF TEN YEARS (1988) by Duyts and Groeneweg
- THE MARKET GARDEN CAMPAIGN (2001) by Cirillo
- THE MAROON SQUARE (1955) by Parsons, Robbins and Gilson
- THE PAPERS OF DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER (1970) by Chandler
- THE SIEGFRIED LINE CAMPAIGN (1993) by MacDonald
- THE SUPREME COMMAND (1989) by Poque
- THE VICTORY CAMPAIGN (1966) by Stacey
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