Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on ""Arnhem" by Antony Beevor Book Review" video.

  1. Folks, once Graber got across Arnhem bridge -- before Frost even reached it -- the ENTIRE operation was dead. Nijmegen bridge became ENTIRELY irrelevant with Graber owning the southern end of the Arnhem bridge. Browning is the ONLY fella that can be blamed, he set the landing zones, and overruled Urquhart and Gavin's requests to land on the critical ISLAND. The land between Nijmegen and Arnhem is an ISLAND. Until the bridges were built, that farmland was accessed by river ferry. The Germans used one of those ferries to shift men onto the island even after Frost interdicted the Arnhem bridge. Without the Arnhem bridge Market Garden was DEAD, DEAD, DEAD. It's that simple. Browning was 'fired' ASAP, by Monty; sent in disgrace off to hide in India, to a staff job of no importance. When you're an army commander, that's pure punishment. Gavin was promoted to major general instantly after Market Garden. Those are the irrefutable facts of Market Garden. XXX Corps, the Americans, the Poles are all irrelevant side players, reduced to that status by the critical flaw in Brown's plan. Monty can't really be blamed, as he deferred to Browning as England's absolute expert in airborne operations... for understandable reasons. That's why MG doesn't even look like a Montgomery operation. Set-piece battles were his speciality.
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