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"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."
How I became an author
I wanted an answer to what exactly happened in Nijmegen during operation Market Garden. Not a lot had been written about it. I discovered unknown material and found out that there had been been no offensive action planned to capture the Nijmegen Waal Bridge, before the jump of American 82 Airborne Division. They did advance towards the bridge at some point late in the evening, but then the element of surprise, so important for lightly armed paratroops, was lost.
When on 19 September British 30 Corps arrived in Nijmegen, on time, the Waal Bridge there was still not captured. Only two days later 30 Corps could advance in force across the Nijmegen Waal Bridge. But, it was too late. At that time, John Frost and his men at the Arnhem Rhine Bridge had already surrendered.
My findings are described in detail in "Lost At Nijmegen (2011)".
Was fun to write, and I decided to write another book. Knowing that was no comprehensive Market Garden book covering the actions of all participating battalions, army and airborne. Mainly based on primary sources. It took me three years. "Little Sense Of Urgency (2014)".
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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