Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: Perfect for Father's Day?

On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aero engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the vast air armada of Dakotas and gliders,carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions. He gazed up in envy at the greatest demonstration of paratroop power ever seen.

• Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
• World War II at Sea: A Global History
• Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
• The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
• On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
• Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
• In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
• The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi
• Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
• Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War