I Was A Stranger
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I Was A Stranger
Sir John Winthrop Hackett
War
James Mustich
Aug 10, 2018
One of the most dramatic encounters of World War II, the Battle of Arnhem took place over the course of nine days in September 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden. This bold plan involved the dropping of some thirty thousand Allied paratroopers behind enemy lines in hopes of capturing the eight bridges that crossed the rivers and canals on the Dutch-German border. I Was a Stranger plunges readers into the thick of Arnhem’s unfolding catastrophe. Brigadier John Hackett is in command of the Fourth Parachute Brigade, which will be practically wiped out in the course of the fighting. He suffers nearly fatal wounds and then finds himself in a hospital being abandoned to the Germans by the retreating English and American forces. After his life is saved by what, under the circumstances, is miraculously expert surgery, Hackett is spirited out of the sick bay by the Dutch resistance movement, which is valiantly helping scores of trapped Allied soldiers elude the Nazis.
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