Abundance of valor
Subtitle: resistance, liberation, and survival, 1944-1945
By: Will Irwin.
Publisher: Presidio Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780345501769
Subjects: Jedburgh (Program) -- Biography; Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American; Parachute troops -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: Telling the riveting story of history's largest airborne assault, "Abundance of Valor" focuses on the British and American forces who, in September 1944, dropped three parachute divisions into German-occupied Holland.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The England game; title: The man from Washington; title: Hazardous duty; title: Highlands interlude; title: First Jeds into Holland; title: Operation Market-Garden; title: Germans everywhere; title: Sunday, September 17, D-Day; title: Monday, September 18, the second day; title: Tuesday, September 19, the third day; title: Wednesday, September 20, the fourth day; title: Thursday, September 21, the fifth day; title: Friday, September 22, the sixth day; title: Saturday, September 23, the seventh day; title: Sunday, September 24, the eighth day; title: Withdrawal, the last day; title: Prisoner of war; title: Todd's journey begins; title: Dulag Luft; title: The insufferable Lord Haw Haw; title: Solitary confinement; title: Stolen plans to be delivered; title: Oflag; title: Goodbye to Bunny and Henk; title: Pappy's return; title: Missing in action; title: The long march; title: Patton's Hammelburg raid; title: Rumors of evil; title: Freedom; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix: The Dutch Jedburgh teams.