A Bridge too Far
( ARNHEM ) ( [MARKET GARDEN] ) RYAN, Cornelius
NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hamish Hamilton, [1974]
Stock code: 50865
Price: £85.00
8vo., First Edition, with 71 plates on 32, 10 maps (6 double-page) in the text, and endpaper maps; red cloth, Pegasus blocked in blue on upper board, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
The best modern account of the epic action, and the basis of Richard Attenborough's immensely successful film (1977) starring Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Olivier, James Caan and a host of others. Enser, pp.13, 87.