Five films and TV shows about Operation Market Garden, recommended by a war historian

By Sam Edwards, Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University

Operation Market Garden – the 80th anniversary of which takes place over September 17-25 – has gone down in history as a strategic failure. The brainchild of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, this military operation was intended to hasten the end of the second world war.

It planned to use the First Allied Airborne Army (consisting of around 35,000 British, American and Polish parachute and glider troops) to seize a series of bridges…

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