Dickie Attenborough’s all-star film of the Allies’ great folly went to great lengths to do right by history. But he had a ...

Walking with a stick, flanked by two members of his family and bathed in the light of a late September morning, 99-year-old ...

Hundreds of parachutists on Saturday dropped down on a heath near the Dutch town of Ede, following in the footsteps of 2,000 ...

Britain's Princess Anne and hundreds of children laid flowers Sunday in memory of those who died 80 years ago during one of ...

Construction on Calf Pasture Beach Road will improve access to the Gardella property ... supply lines scuppered the plan as ...

Operation Market Garden was a plan conceived by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery to hasten the end of the Second World War by ...

Veterans and royals gather this weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's greatest Allied debacles: an ...

TWO Colchester residents have teamed up to honour the heroic soldiers who took part in a Second World War operation by creating a beautiful, ...

A Bridge Too Far, which was based on the book ... exposed nature of the road towards Arnhem along which the ground advance had to pass. Although deemed “90 per cent successful” by Montgomery ...

The Drop Zones and Landing Zones for Arnhem were problematic. The northern end of the road bridge was in a densely populated major city so was not available and the southern side was considered ...

[51] Aerial view of Arnhem showing the road bridge which had been destroyed on October 7 by allied bombers For the 50th Northumbrian Division, the battle was to be its last. Casualties had been severe ...