Arnhem: Black Tuesday
by
Al Murray
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1804995452
ISBN-13
9781804995457
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint
Penguin (Transworld)
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 5th, 2025
Print length
432 Pages
Weight
322 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.90 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
ArnhemSecond World WarBattles & campaignsBattles / military campaignsSecond World War
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Discover the Sunday Times bestseller and incredible true story behind the most catastrophic 24-hours the British military faced in World War II from the bestselling author.
‘Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem’ James Holland
’Superb... A military historian of originality and insight to compare with the best’ Saul David
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The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but doomed attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas 1944.
It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being destined to fail, but the men who fought there, men of military legend, didn''t know that that was to be their fate.
Now, in Arnhem: Black Tuesday, Al Murray focuses on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants, without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear, offering a very different perspective on a familiar narrative.
Some things went right and a great many more went wrong, but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered.
Al Murray has always been obsessed by this legendary battle, and in Arnhem: Black Tuesday he showcases all of his knowledge, interpretation and enthusiasm to bear to tell the story of one of history’s great heroic failures differently for the first time.
_________
‘Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem’ James Holland
’Superb... A military historian of originality and insight to compare with the best’ Saul David
_________
The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but doomed attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas 1944.
It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being destined to fail, but the men who fought there, men of military legend, didn''t know that that was to be their fate.
Now, in Arnhem: Black Tuesday, Al Murray focuses on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants, without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear, offering a very different perspective on a familiar narrative.
Some things went right and a great many more went wrong, but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered.
Al Murray has always been obsessed by this legendary battle, and in Arnhem: Black Tuesday he showcases all of his knowledge, interpretation and enthusiasm to bear to tell the story of one of history’s great heroic failures differently for the first time.
_________
Praise for Arnhem: Black Tuesday:
‘Original and insightful’ Telegraph
''A revelation.. This is Arnhem unplugged. By confining himself to men in and around Arnhem on that Tuesday, Murray achieves something special'' The Times
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