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Softcover. Etat : New. Test of Battle Games Command Decision (4th Edition) Operation - Market-Garden (MINT/New)Manufacturer: Test of Battle GamesProduct Line: Command Decision (4th Edition)Type: SoftcoverCode: TB0151Copyright Date: 2009Author: Jake StrangewayPage Count: 54Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is MINT/New. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:An overview history of the Market Garden campaign, from inception to completion, following each airborne division: the 101st around Eindhoven, the 82nd around Nijmegen, and the British 1st Airborne around Arnhem. 10 historical battles presented as game battles â" covering the entire operation, from the initial breakout by XXX Corps (September 17th, 1944) to the bitter end, after the British toehold at Arnhem Bridge had been eliminated, and the operation had been stalled on the Island. After the Normandy landings, over 25 major airborne operations were planned by the Allied high command and cancelled for one reason or another. Finally, on September 10th, 1944, Field Marshall Montgomery met with Dwight Eisenhower at Melsbroek airfield outside of Brussels. At this meeting, Montgomery won approval for an ambitious plan to allow the Allies to drive from Belgium through Holland and then cross the Rhine River into Germany â" an operation that called for three airborne divisions to be landed in stages over three days miles behind enemy lines - code name: Market Garden.

Softcover. Etat : New. Test of Battle Games Command Decision (4th Edition) Crisis in the Ardennes - The Battle of the Bulge 1944 (MINT/New)Manufacturer: Test of Battle GamesProduct Line: Command Decision (4th Edition)Type: SoftcoverCode: TB0154Copyright Date: 2011Author: Jake StrangewayPage Count: 86Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is MINT/New. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:On December 16th, 1944 the German Army launched Operation Wacht am Rhein (Operation Watch on the Rhine). This operation, whose goal was to split the Allied armies and capture Antwerp, was the last major offensive launched by Germany in the West. Known as the "Battle of the Bulge" due to the shape of the German advance into Allied lines, it has secured its place in history as the largest battle fought by America in the war, and the nail in the coffin of the Wehrmacht.