"John Frost Bridge John Frost Bridge (""John Frostbrug"" in Dutch) is the road bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem, in the Netherlands. The bridge is named after Major-General John Dutton Frost (1912–1993), who commanded the British forces that reached and defended the bridge during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. The bridge was featured in the 1977 film ""A Bridge Too Far"", although a different bridge was used for the film. There had been a floating bridge at Arnhem since 1603 but as the city grew in the early 20th century a permanent link across the Lower Rhine"
"Cornelius Ryan Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books: ""The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day"" (1959), ""The Last Battle"" (1966), and ""A Bridge Too Far"" (1974). Ryan was born in Dublin and educated at Synge Street CBS, Portobello, Ireland. He was an altar boy at St Kevin's Church, Harrington Street and studied the violin at the Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. He was a boy scout in the 52nd Troop of the Catholic Boy Scouts"
"Colonel of the Irish Guards between 1966 and his retirement in 1968, returning to Clonhugh, Ireland in 1972 to help run the family estate. He was interviewed by Cornelius Ryan for his 1974 book ""A Bridge too Far"", later made into a film the film of the same name in 1977. His voluntary work included his work as Chairman of the Southern Irish branch of the Irish Guards Association, from 1979 to 2000, the President of the Soldiers, Sailors, Air Force Association, SSAFA, Chairman of the War Pensions Committee for the Republic of Ireland and fundraising for the British Legion"
"leaving the British Army Urquhart became an executive in the heavy engineering industry, retiring in 1970. In 1958 Urquhart published ""Arnhem: Britain's Infamous Airborne Assault of World War II"" () detailing his exploits in the battle. Urquhart was portrayed by Sean Connery in the 1977 film ""A Bridge Too Far"", for which he himself served as a military consultant. Despite his earlier-mentioned friendship with David Niven, in a publication about the making of the film, he was quoted as saying that he wasn't much of a film fan himself and could not understand why his daughters were so excited at"
"1962 film ""The Longest Day"" and also the subject of a book by Stephen Ambrose by the same name. The module contains six stand-alone scenarios in addition to the requisite Campaign Games, two in number in this module. The mapsheet depicts the bridge and surrounding towns of Benouville and Le Port. Chapter Q of the ASL Rule Book is included. Additionally, Day 7 of the Chapter K training module is included (later released with the second version of the ASL Rulebook). Scenarios: PB1 - PB6. A Bridge Too Far (1999) is named after Cornelius Ryan's famous book about Operation Market"
"justice to the opportunity."" Publication of The Liberation Trilogy began in 2002 with """", acclaimed by ""The Wall Street Journal"" as ""the best World War II battle narrative since Cornelius Ryan’s classics, ""The Longest Day"" and ""A Bridge Too Far""."" While with the 101st Airborne Division south of Baghdad in April 2003, Atkinson learned that the book had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history. The trilogy's second volume, ""The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944"", published in 2007, drew praise from ""The New York Times"" as ""a triumph of narrative history, elegantly written...and rooted in"
"War, as a radio operator with the 82nd Airborne Division's 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment Raub participated in D-Day and Operation Market Garden. According to author Cornelius Ryan's best-selling account of the battle, ""A Bridge Too Far"": ""When tracer bullets began ripping through his canopy, Private Edwin Raub became so enraged that he deliberately side-slipped his chute so as to land next to the anti-aircraft gun. Without removing his harness, and dragging his parachute behind him, Raub rushed the Germans with his Tommy gun. He killed one, captured the others, and then, with plastic explosives destroyed the flak-gun barrels."" A few"
"probably have prevented the re-occupation, Britain and France were not inclined to do so, a feature of their policy of appeasement to Hitler. In World War II, it was recognised that the Rhine would present a formidable natural obstacle to the invasion of Germany, by the Western Allies. The Rhine bridge at Arnhem, immortalized in the book, ""A Bridge Too Far"" and the film, was a central focus of the battle for Arnhem, during the failed Operation Market Garden of September 1944. The bridges at Nijmegen, over the Waal distributary of the Rhine, were also an objective of Operation Market"
"The Longest Day (book) The Longest Day is a book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1959, telling the story of D-Day, the first day of the World War II invasion of Normandy. It includes details of Operation Deadstick, the ""coup de main"" operation by gliderborne troops to capture both Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge before the main assault on the Normandy beaches. It sold tens of millions of copies in eighteen different languages. The book is not a dry military history, but rather a story about people, and reads at times like a novel. It is based on interviews with"
"the project was never produced. The Last Battle (Ryan) The Last Battle is a 1966 book by Cornelius Ryan about the events leading up to the Battle of Berlin in World War II. The book, which was published by Simon & Schuster, is structured as a historical narrative. It is based on interviews with hundreds of persons actually involved, including Americans, British, Germans and Russians. Ryan was granted unique historical access to Soviet archives and Soviet generals involved in the battle, which was rare at the time. The book was published simultaneously in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,"
"The Last Battle (Ryan) The Last Battle is a 1966 book by Cornelius Ryan about the events leading up to the Battle of Berlin in World War II. The book, which was published by Simon & Schuster, is structured as a historical narrative. It is based on interviews with hundreds of persons actually involved, including Americans, British, Germans and Russians. Ryan was granted unique historical access to Soviet archives and Soviet generals involved in the battle, which was rare at the time. The book was published simultaneously in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands,"
"Irish Guards, he led the breakout of XXX Corps during Operation Market-Garden. His second cousin Lieutenant-Colonel Giles Vandeleur (their grandfathers were brothers) was acting commanding officer of the 2nd Armoured Battalion, Irish Guards. He went on to command the 129th Infantry Brigade and 32nd Guards Brigade. He retired from the Army in 1951. His memoirs ""A Soldier's Story"" were privately printed by Gale & Polden in 1967. In the 1977 film ""A Bridge Too Far"", Michael Caine played Vandeleur and Michael Byrne played Giles Vandeleur. Vandeleur acted as military consultant to the production. He lived out his life after the"
"under the influence of prescription drugs and alcohol, he was involved in an automobile accident in which two people were injured. He was fined £50 and forced to pay court and medical costs. He died from a heart attack at Menabilly on 14 March 1965. Browning was portrayed by Dirk Bogarde in the film ""A Bridge Too Far"", which was based on the events of Operation Market Garden. A copy of Browning's uniform was made to Bogarde's measurements from the original in the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Museum. The Airborne Forces Museum, which opened in 1969, was for many"
"Thurston. This education ended in 1939 with service in World War II. Addison served with the British XXX Corps in the 23rd Hussars. He was a tank officer in the Battle of Normandy and wounded at Caen, later participating in Operation Market Garden. Addison would later write the score for the film ""A Bridge Too Far"" about the operation. At the end of the war, he returned to London to teach composition at the Royal College of Music. Addison is best known for his film scores. He won an Academy Award and a Grammy Award in the Best Original Score"
"OPC for excellence in journalism at their annual award dinner, usually held at the end of April. The award is named for the journalist and author Cornelius Ryan, who himself, twice received this, his own namesake award (1959 for ""The Longest Day"" and 1974 for ""A Bridge Too Far""). In 2009 the judges were Chris Power (Bloomberg BusinessWeek), Robert Dowling (Caixin Media Group), and Robert Teitelman (The Deal). Cornelius Ryan Award The Cornelius Ryan Award is given for ""best nonfiction book on international affairs"" by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). To be eligible for this literary award a"
"as the 1st Airborne Corps Intelligence Officer, he assisted with the planning for Operation Market Garden, an ambitious airborne operation designed to seize the Dutch bridges over the rivers barring the Allied advance into northern Germany. He became convinced that the plan was critically flawed, and attempted to persuade his superiors to modify or abort their plans in light of crucial information obtained from aerial reconnaissance and the Dutch resistance. The episode was described by Cornelius Ryan in his book on ""Market Garden"", ""A Bridge Too Far"". (In the film version, directed by Richard Attenborough, Urquhart's character was renamed ""Major"
"Royal Artillery. His wartime experiences led to his novels, ""Where the Sea Breaks"" (1944), and ""The Edge of Darkness"", published in 1947. His Canadian prairie experience influenced two of his works, ""The Buffalo Soldier"" an historical novel about the American West, and ""Culloden"", about the 1746 battle which resulted in the defeat of the Jacobite uprising. The story of Battle of Culloden had been part of the family lore when he grew up in the predominantly Scottish township of Sutherland, in rural Saskatchewan. His interest in the American West was also inspired by the fact that part of his family"
"Here he was able to witness the Vietnam War first hand before returning to Britain in 1972 and joining the Joint Warfare Establishment at Old Sarum near Salisbury in Wiltshire. Waddy resigned his commission in 1974 and became Military Advisor to Westland Helicopters, a post he held until his retirement in 1989. Although he found the work stimulating, Waddy was frustrated by the Army's lack of interest in the helicopter. When production of the movie ""A Bridge Too Far"" began in 1975, Waddy was given six months leave by Westland to act as chief Military Advisor, an appointment that John"
"other prisoners on the construction of the Burma Railway which crossed Thailand, a feat that inspired the Pierre Boulle book ""The Bridge over the River Kwai"", and the film adaptation, ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" by David Lean. Watt criticised both the book and the film for the liberties they took with the historical details of the prisoner of war experience and, more subtly, their refusal to acknowledge the moral complexities of the situation. More than 12,000 prisoners died during the building of the railway, most of them from disease, and Watt was critically ill from malnutrition for several"
"he gathered stories from both the Allies and the Germans, as well as the French civilians. In 1956 he began to write down his World War II notes for ""The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day"", which tells the story of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, published three years later in 1959. It was an instant success, and Ryan helped in the writing of the screenplay for the 1962 film of the same name. Darryl F. Zanuck paid the author US$175,000 for the screen rights to the book. Ryan's 1957 book ""One Minute to Ditch!"" is about the successful ocean"
"a successful strategy and Gavin served as Ambassador to France in 1961 and 1962. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter considered the 70-year-old Gavin for Director of the CIA before settling on Admiral Stansfield Turner. Along with David Shoup and Matthew Ridgway, Gavin became one of the more visible former military critics of the Vietnam War. General Gavin was portrayed by Robert Ryan in ""The Longest Day"", and by Ryan O'Neal in ""A Bridge Too Far"". Gavin served as an advisor on both films. James Gavin died on February 23, 1990 and is buried to the immediate east of the Old"
"was the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II. The men at this camp built the Bridge on the River Kwai which was described in a book by Pierre Boulle and later in an Oscar-winning film in which Alec Guinness played the senior British officer. Both the book and film outraged former prisoners because Toosey did not collaborate, unlike the fictional Colonel Nicholson. 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was formed in 1939 with headquarters at Watford.It served in the Battle of France, The"
"Major-General Roy Urquhart, who took exception to Cleminson's moustache, which he called ""damned silly"". For three days he fought in the village of Oosterbeek, until he was wounded and captured. For his defence of the perimeter, Cleminson was awarded the Military Cross and was later featured in the film ""A Bridge Too Far"", played by Michael Graham Cox. In early 1945, Cleminson was freed by American forces, and accompanied Urquhart to Norway at the end of the conflict. On demobilisation in 1946, Cleminson joined his father's firm, which had merged with J. J. Colman to form Reckitt & Colman. The"
"Breathe"" (1940), ""The Trojan Horse"" (1941) and ""Attack Alarm"" (1941), the last of which was based on his experiences as an anti-aircraft gunner during the Battle of Britain at RAF Kenley. After being demobilized in 1946, he worked full-time as a writer, achieving a number of early successes. His novels are notable for a fine attention to accurate detail in descriptions of places, such as in ""Air Bridge"" (1951), set partially at RAF Gatow, RAF Membury after its closure and RAF Wunstorf during the Berlin Airlift. Innes went on to produce books in a regular sequence, with six months of"
"Infantry Division, 27th Infantry Regiment before and during World War II, first in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, then in combat on Guadalcanal at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse, where he injured his ankle. He returned to the US and was discharged in July 1944. He also worked as a journalist covering the Vietnam War. His wartime experiences inspired some of his most famous works, the so-called war trilogy. He witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to his first published novel, ""From Here to Eternity"" (1951). ""The Thin Red"
"Commander"", an account of his battles in north-west Europe, published in 1977. Horrocks acted as a military consultant for the 1977 film ""A Bridge Too Far"", based on Operation Market Garden. The actor Edward Fox played Horrocks in the film, and later commented: Horrocks died on 4 January 1985, aged 89. The memorial service, held at Westminster Abbey on 26 February, was attended by Major-General Peter Gillett and Secretary of State for Defence Michael Heseltine, who represented the Queen and Prime Minister respectively. Thirty regiments and many other formations and associations were represented at the service. Brian Horrocks Lieutenant-General Sir"
"years, where he is known for being interested in his students and history. He is best known for two major works: ""Albion's Seed"" (1989), and ""Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)"" (2004). In ""Albion's Seed"", he argues that core aspects of American culture stem from four British folkways and regional cultures and that their interaction and conflict have been decisive factors in U.S. political and historical development. In ""Washington's Crossing"", Fischer provides a narrative of George Washington's leadership of the Continental Army during the winter of 1776–1777 during the American Revolutionary War. He was admitted as an honorary member"
"was premièred 19 December 1945 in Washington, D.C. Steve Earle's 1988 song ""Johnny Come Lately"" from the album Copperhead Road is about an American P-47 pilot in World War II; it contains a verse ""My P-47 is a pretty good ship. She took a round comin' cross the channel last trip."" Modified T-6 Texans depicted P-47s in the 1977 film ""A Bridge Too Far"". P-51 Mustangs (postwar designation F-51) appear in the 1957 Universal Studios film ""Battle Hymn"". The Steven Spielberg film ""Empire of the Sun"" (1987), based on the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name, featured models and"
"Paris, Boulle used his war experiences in writing ""Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï"" (1952; ""The Bridge over the River Kwai""), which became a multi-million-copy worldwide bestseller, winning the French """"Prix Sainte-Beuve"""". The book was a semi-fictional story based on the real plight of Allied POWs forced to build a railway that passed over the bridge, and which became known as the ""Death Railway"". 16,000 prisoners and 100,000 Asian conscripts died during construction of the line. His character of Lt-Col. Nicholson was not based on the real Allied senior officer at the Kwai bridges, Philip Toosey, but was reportedly an"
"1970s and 1980s generally only covered parts of the river canyon. In 1999, writer Virginia Morell and photographer Nevada Wier made the journey by raft from Lake Tana to the Sudan, afterwards publishing a documentary about their journey. In 2000, American and National Geographic reader, Kenneth Frantz, saw a photo taken by Nevada Wier for ""National Geographic"" which would lead him to found the charity Bridges to Prosperity. This photo showed a bridge broken during World War II, with 10 men on either side of the broken span pulling each other across the dangerous gap by rope. This historic bridge"
"in episode 2 of ""Band of Brothers"". On June 30 the 101st was withdrawn to England becoming the first battle-tested troops to return. He was later awarded the Bronze Star for his actions in Normandy. Gibbons and the rest of the 101st went on to successfully take the first bridge in Operation Market Garden (described in Cornelius Ryan's book ""A Bridge Too Far""). In December 1944 the 101st was in reserve when orders came down to load up on trucks and move to Bastogne to hold and await resupply. Against very long odds the 101st held successfully with dwindling supplies,"
"led by Major, later Colonel, John Tillett, went on to fight during the Battle of the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine in Operation Varsity and in the advance across Germany to the Baltic sea. In 1946, despite wishing to continue serving, Howard was invalided out of the Army as a result of injuries that he received in the accident, and he went to work for the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1954 he was awarded the ""Croix de Guerre avec Palme"" by the French government. On 6 June 1959, Cornelius Ryan published ""The Longest Day"", in which 'D' Company's assault"
"film ""Saving Private Ryan"", and appears on the cover of Stanley Lombardo's 1997 English translation of the ""Iliad"" as a symbol of the universality of war. The picture was also rendered on the 2017 ""Call of Duty"" game ""."" Into the Jaws of Death Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death is a photograph taken on June 6, 1944, by Robert F. Sargent, a chief photographer's mate in the United States Coast Guard. It depicts U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division soldiers disembarking from an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned at"