Misc: Documents relating to the Allied offensive at Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 19 |
Held at | : Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma › |
Full title | : Misc: Documents relating to the Allied offensive at Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944 |
Date(s) | : 1944-1946 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 1 file |
Name of creator(s) | : |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Collection includes five postcards, four of which are of British troops from 1 Airborne Div at Hotel De Tafelberg, Oosterbeek, Netherlands, during Operation MARKET GARDEN, the Allied attempt to establish a bridgehead across the Rhine river at Arnhem, 17 Sep-25 Sep 1944, and one of the Airborne Monument at Oosterbeek, built by J Maris, 1946; and a personal account by Henk B van der Horst entitled, Paratroopers Jump, Fury over Arnhem (Boekhandel Romijn, Oosterbeek, 1946), relating to the Allied airborne offensive at Arnhem, 17 Sep-25 Sep 1944.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre in 1983 and 1984 by Dr Michael Dockrill, Department of War Studies, King's College, London
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Description Notes
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Date(s) of descriptions:
Date of compilation: Oct 1999
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