The tale of Operation Market Garden, which was an attempt by the allies to end the war more quickly by seizing three bridges in Holland and providing access over the Rhine into Germany, is told in the film A Bridge Too Far. This endeavor was unsuccessful. The final phase of this operation—the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine, sometimes known as the proverbial "bridge too far”—was doomed to failure due to a combination of poor intelligence gathering by the Allies and the presence of two elite German Panzer divisions.
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The tale of Operation Market Garden, which was an attempt by the allies to end the war more quickly by seizing three bridges in Holland and providing access over the Rhine into Germany, is told in the film A Bridge Too Far. This endeavor was unsuccessful. The final phase of this operation—the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine, sometimes known as the proverbial "bridge too far”—was doomed to failure due to a combination of poor intelligence gathering by the Allies and the presence of two elite German Panzer divisions.
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