Arnhem Black Tuesday, Al Murray.

 

Al Murray a famous British comedian with the alter ego as a pub landlord with conservative values who and hates the French and Germans. The reality is somewhat different an incredibly educated man (Oxford) with keen interest in history specifically with the early history of the parachute regiment. Al’s farther had served with many of the veterans of World War Two as Lieutenant Colonel in 131 parachute regiment. Watching ‘A bridge to far’ in his youth and listening to the corrections from his farther Al would study and visit the scenes of the action in the following years. 

This book is written in a rather different way it forgoes the overview of the battle and you find yourself embedded with the British airborne troops at Arnhem. It’s the turning point of the battle in many ways, your brief in England was simple. Your lightly armed airborne unit was to race from the landing fields to capture the bridge in Arnhem and hold out until Tuesday morning when XXX corps will roll down the road and relieve you. Well against all odds the paras have captured one end of the bridge and are holding out against a superior force of an SS Panzer division. Fighting hand to hand combat, street to street all hope lays with XXX corps coming down that road and reliving your beleaguered comrades. It’s the day and surly they should be here at any time, if only the radios worked, your landing fields are beginning to be over run how long can this go on ? 

Al Murray puts you in the heart of the vicious fighting and it’s a minute buy minute blow of that fateful day. It’s should stand as a testament to the brave men of Arnhem who fought so hard for so long against the odds. 

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