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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

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

Title: Misc: Documents relating to the Allied offensive at Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944

Date(s): 1944-1946

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

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CONTEXT

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CONTENT

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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 AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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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.

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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

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre in 1983 and 1984 by Dr Michael Dockrill, Department of War Studies, King's College, London

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Date of compilation: Oct 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Airborne warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Armed forces | State security
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Occupied territories | Humanitarian law
Operation Market Garden (1944) | Military operations | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
War memorials | Monuments | Architecture
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names
Horst | Henk B | van der | fl 1946 | author x van der Horst | Henk B
Maris | J | fl 1946 | sculptor

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Arnhem | Netherlands | Western Europe | Europe
Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Oosterbeek | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Rhine, river | Western Europe | Europe