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Crossing the Rhine: Breaking into Nazi Germany, 1944 and 1945—the Greatest Airborne Battles in History by Lloyd Clark, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2008, $25. The Battle of Arnhem—Operation Market Garden, aka the “Bridge Too Far” fight—is one of the most written-about confrontations of World War II, along with Midway, Normandy, the Battle of Britain …
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