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Hell'S Highway : A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September – November 1944, Paperback / softback Book

Hell'S Highway : A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September – November 1944 Paperback / softback

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September 17, 1944; thousands of 101st Airborne Division paratroopers, known as the Screaming Eagles, descend from the sky over Holland, dropping deep behind German lines in a daring daylight mission to seize and secure the road leading north to Arnhem and the Rhine.

Their success would allow the Allied army to advance swiftly into Germany.

The Screaming Eagles accomplish their initial objectives within hours, but keeping their sections of “Hell’s Highway” open takes another 72 days of fierce round-the-clock fighting against crack German troops and tank divisions. Hell's Highway is the dramatic name given to the vital stretch of road that the British 3rd Guards Armoured Division had to advance down rapidly on their route to relieve the American Paras (82nd Airborne) at Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. Drawing on interviews with more than 600 paratroopers, George E.

Koskimaki chronicles, with vivid firsthand accounts, the dramatic, never-before-told story of the Screaming Eagles’valiant struggle.

Hell’s Highway also tells of the Dutch citizens and members of the underground who were liberated after five years of Nazi oppression and who never forgot America’s airborne heroes.

This renowned force risked their lives for the freedom of a small country . . . and the world. About the AuthorGeorge Koskimaki is a noted historian of the 101st Airborne Division.

His other books include D-Day With The Screaming Eagles and The Battered Bastards of Bastogne.

He lives in Northville, MI, USA.

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