
Devil's Birthday
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Preface to the New Edition
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE 'Coins burning holes in SHAEF's pocket'
- CHAPTER TWO 'To grab the bridges with thunderclap surprise'
- CHAPTER THREE 'But the Germans, General, the Germans'
- CHAPTER FOUR 'It was evident that the initial flight ... would be hazardous
- CHAPTER FIVE 'Signal failures were no new phenomenon'
- CHAPTER SIX 'The drop was better than had ever been experienced'
- CHAPTER SEVEN 'A tale you will tell your grandchildren'
- CHAPTER EIGHT 'Oh, how I wish I had ever had such powerful means at my disposal'
- CHAPTER NINE 'They proved to be among the bravest and most patriotic people we had liberated'
- CHAPTER TEN 'A grossly untidy situation'
- CHAPTER ELEVEN 'The retention of the high ground South of Nijmegen was of greater importance'
- CHAPTER TWELVE 'It is against text-book teaching to break off an engagement and withdraw from the battlefield in broad daylight ...
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN 'Jim, never try to fight an entire Corps off one road'
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN 'Touch them and they react'
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN 'It was the outstanding independent parachute battalion action of the war'
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN 'I'm proud to meet the commander of the greatest division in the world today'
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 'Der Kessel'
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 'Major-General Sosabowski proved himself to be extremely difficult to work with'
- CHAPTER NINETEEN 'I regard general situation on rivers as now very satisfactory'
- CHAPTER TWENTY 'Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day'
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 'About the blackest moment of my life'
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 'He was certain in his own mind that no reinforcement could arrive in time ... '
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 'The position held by the Airborne Division had no military value'
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 'The night was made for clandestine exits'
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 'In the years to come ... no one will remember that two American divisions fought their hearts out in the Dutch canal country'
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX 'Operation "Market" was a brilliant success'
- AFTERTHOUGHT
- Notes
- Sources
- Glossary
- Index
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