Word: arnhem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Perhaps it's not too widely known that you were the young intelligence officer portrayed in Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge Too Far. What led you to advise against the ill-fated British attack on Arnhem, in German-occupied Holland...
...Gaulle and Admiral Jean Darlan over France's fate. But he learned fast, and by December 1943, when he took command of all Allied forces for the Normandy landing, Ike was sure and decisive. But he was not always right. Too many days and lives were squandered at Arnhem in 1944, argues Ambrose, when the Allies should have been trying to seize Antwerp. That would have opened up the European port nearest Germany's heartland and, he asserts, ended the war months sooner. Even worse, as the Wehrmacht collapsed, Eisenhower turned his armies toward the Alps instead...