| I think that any study of Market Garden runs into problems if it only looks at Arnhem. Middelbrook's book does this and i would certainly recommend it, but there is much more to the whole operation.
To me, although things at Arnhem did not go according to plan, I think the delays in taking the Nijmegen bridges were in the end crucial. I do not, though, go along with the line in "A Bridge Too Far" that the British tanks "stopped for tea" rather than press on after they were taken. To me, this covers up the failure of the 82nd Airborne's plan, which led to the failure to take the bridges on 17 September.
I would suggest also reading the German side of the operation in "It Never Snows in September", Robert J Kershaw, Ian Allan 2004.
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