9 Days In Hell: How 7,000 Elite Airborne Soldiers Were Abandoned

In the late summer of 1944, Allied victory against Nazi Germany seemed absolute. The German Wehrmacht was retreating in chaos, Paris was free, and General Montgomery conceived a daring gamble to end World War II by Christmas. Codenamed Operation Market Garden, it was designed to be the largest airborne assault in human history, dropping 35,000 elite troops deep behind enemy l …