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This hardback history book by Al Murray offers a fresh perspective on the 1944 Battle of Arnhem through eyewitness participant accounts. The narrative focuses intensely on the critical decisions made during Black Tuesday without using the benefit of historical hindsight to judge the soldiers. Readers can finally understand how specific wartime choices were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered during the campaign.
- Features vivid accounts from British participants who fought on the ground.
- Authored by comedian and military historian Al Murray.
- Covers the pivotal events surrounding the Rhine river crossings in September.
- Detailed analysis of command structures and leadership decisions made by generals.
- Printed as a premium hardcover edition designed for serious readers.
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xThe Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but thwarted attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring hindsight, as being doomed to fail, but the men who fought there, men of military legend, did not know that was to be their fate.
By focusing on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants and without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear, Al Murray offers a very different perspective to a familiar narrative. Some things went right and a great many more went wrong, but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered.
Tuesday 19 September 1944 was that terrible day which became known as Black Tuesday. From just after 12:00 hours while plans were being made to seize the initiative and optimism reigned, to the following midnight, when Arnhem was burning and the Allied fortunes looked very different, a mere twenty-four hours changed the course of the war.
Al Murray has always been obsessed with Arnhem, and in Arnhem: Black Tuesday, brings all of his knowledge, interpretation and enthusiasm to bear to tell the story of one of history's great heroic failures differently for the first time.
Al Murray's alter ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognizable and successful comic creations of the past twenty years, and Murray, who has won numerous awards and accolades, continues to fill arenas and theatres around the world. He is also the author of many successful books including Watching War Films with My Dad and Command, a sharply entertaining analysis of the key allied military leaders in the Second World War. He is well known for co-hosting the hugely popular Second World War history podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk with fellow bestselling military author James Holland. Arnhem: Black Tuesday is his first history book about a single campaign.
