“Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central element. It was quite simply a very bad plan right from the start and right from the top. Every other problem stemmed from that.” MontgomeryArnhemOperation Market Garden Book:Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 Source: Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944