I agree, Cornelius Ryan was my youthful introduction to a new form of history that included the ordinary average individual who often had done extraordinary things but probably didn’t think so. As to terrain analysis of the Market Garden fights I suspect that the absence reflects the intensity of the desire to answer again the question of whether or not it was a question of a bridge too far, or the one damned narrow road, or the failure to assess the intelligence indicators of a more significant German presence.....
I agree, Cornelius Ryan was my youthful introduction to a new form of history that included the ordinary average individual who often had done extraordinary things but probably didn’t think so. As to terrain analysis of the Market Garden fights I suspect that the absence reflects the intensity of the desire to answer again the question of whether or not it was a question of a bridge too far, or the one damned narrow road, or the failure to assess the intelligence indicators of a more significant German presence.....