Comedian and military historian Al Murray – best known as the Pub Landlord – wrote about A Bridge Too Far in his 2013 book, Watching War Films with My Dad. Going to see A Bridge Too Far with ...
"One that stands out for me personally was visiting Arnhem bridge, which was tasked to be ... how much they had to sacrifice in the face of war but also the true realities of war, which we could ...
There’s a scene two hours into A Bridge Too Far – Richard Attenborough’s epic recreation of the doomed Operation Market Garden – in which a lone German soldier walks across Arnhem Bridge ...
This weekend marks the anniversary of Operation Market Garden which aimed to speed up the end of the Second World War. Allied Forces attempted to capture a series of bridges over The River Rhine. But ...
Princess Anne has led tributes to the WWII heroes who fought in the Battle of Arnhem ... movie - A Bridge Too Far, saw some of the most intense fighting of the Second World War.
HE was among 35,000 men who fought the Germans for nine long days in one of the bloodiest battles of World War ... to Arnhem, in 1950. It was the first time he got to see the famous Bridge Too ...
EIGHTY years ago today, gliderman Peter Hill was involved in fierce fighting around the Dutch town of Arnhem as Allied forces tried to capture a crucial bridge over the River Rhine. History now ...
THE skies above Arnhem were full of parachutes again yesterday — 80 years after brave British troops made the same jump during World War Two. An audience of more than 100,000 people watched as ...
It is a former hotel that served as the headquarters of the British 1st Airborne Division during the Battle of Arnhem ... in the film A Bridge Too Far, were thwarted by strong resistance from Nazi ...
A book Al has written about the nine-day battle capture a bridge ... from a World War II Dakota aircraft and was injured landing badly on Ginkel Heath to mark the battle of Arnhem.
Paratroops from nine Nato nations today jumped into Ginkle Heath on the outskirts of Arnhem ... movie - A Bridge Too Far, saw some of the most intense fighting of the Second World War.