Volume 34, Number 14 · September 24, 1987

The Last Disaster of the War

By Brian Urquhart

During the summer of 1944, after five years in the British Army, three years of which were with the airborne forces, I was the chief intelligence officer of the British Airborne Corps. In this capacity I took an unwilling part in the last of the great Allied disasters of World War II.



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