Saturday 22 June 2019
East Lawn Marquee kindly supported by Alconbury Weald - Wimpole Estate
A ‘heroic failure’ immortalised in the classic film A Bridge Too Far, Operation Market Garden saw the Allies attempt to capture nine bridges across the German-occupied Netherlands in late 1944.
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The story of arrogance and bad planning is a familiar one - but in Antony Beevor’s typically forensic and dramatic retelling, we see the grim reality of this failed gamble - the terrible reprisals the Germans later meted out against the local Dutch population.
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18:30 - 19:30