Frank van Lunteren

The Battle of the Bridges

The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in paperback: the story of the 504th PIR in Operation Market Garden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Casemate Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781612004778
• ISBN-10: 1612004776
• Artikelnr.: 46602177

Autorenporträt

Frank van Lunteren was born and raised in Arnhem, the Netherlands. While studying history in Nijmegen, in the spring of 2001, he established contact with a WWII veteran of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Shortly after he graduated as a historian, Van Lunteren was guest speaker at the August 2007 Convention of the 504th PIR Association. There, veteran Francis Keefe (1924-2021) asked him to write "a book on the entire regiment." The research process of over twenty years culminated in five volumes: Birth of a Regiment (May 1942-September 1943), Spearhead of the Fifth Army (September 1943-April 1944), The Battle of the Bridges (April 1944-November 1944), Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper (November 1944-February 1945), End of an Odyssey (February 1945-January 1946). From activation to the New York Victory Parade, Colonel Reuben Tucker's troopers are followed throughout World War II.