A Bridge Too Far

"We stayed at a guesthouse near his old house and explored some of the places he’d known as a boy. We visited the Airborne Museum . The most well-known book about the Battle of Arnhem is Irish war correspondent Cornelius Ryan’s A Bridge Too Far . The movie of the book, directed by Richard Attenborough and with Sean Connery, Robert Redford and a star-studded cast, is unmissable. My father’s only criticism of the book was the title: it was not ‘a bridge too far’, but ‘a bridge not far enough’, because the Allies failed to get over the Rhine (my Dad always had extremely low tolerance for poetic license). I have not read bestselling British historian Antony Beevor’s more recent book, Arnhem , but expect it might be a better place to start for a contemporary reader—bringing in the German perspective and new source material. ( Antony Beevor’s interview about World War II is one of the most popular on Five Books , so I presume quite a few people reading this are fans)."