Volume 2 of this two-volume history of Operation Market-Garden continues
the story as XXX Corps links up with the 82nd Airborne at Nijmegen which
leads to the dramatic and spectacular capture of the vital bridges there
over the Waal river. But at Arnhem the tide of battle has already
turned. The main force of lst Airborne is thrown back to the Oosterbeek
perimeter, leaving John Frost's isolated force at the road bridge to
fight it out till the end. As the Polish Brigade is dropped south of the
Rhine, and the ground army desperately tries to relieve the beleaguered
British paras, down in the south the Germans launch repeated attacks on
the narrow corridor in an attempt to cut the Allied supply artery. As
savage battles rage for possession of Hell's Highway, the airborne
battle is lost and on September 26 the survivors of lst Airborne are
evacuated back across the Rhine.