Paper on WWII
In A Bridge to Far the Allies try to end World War II by dropping soldiers behind enemy lines and cut off supply lines. The movie goes into great detail of the confusion and power struggles amongst the leaders of the allies. In 1944, the German armies were being pushed back across the Low Countries. The Allies' great strategic problem was the Rhine, the wide river which formed Germany's western border. A daring plan was conceived which would overcome the Rhine obstacle and open the road to Berlin. Market Garden, as the plan was codenamed, involved parachuting spearhead units onto the great bridges over the Rhine and securing them for the critical few hours it would take for an ar
The historical quality of the movie appears to be very genuine, from the armor and uniforms to the on location filming, it seems very accurate. The movie also has an "A - list" cast of actors in it, making it believable over other action movies that are intense on action and not acting. A Bridge to Far was an excellent display of what happened with the plan itself, but it also went into great detail of the behind the scenes actions of the leaders, giving the viewer a better concept of the power ladder for the allies. This movie could be used to teach us the process' that make up such attack plans and the actual carrying out of the plans. The film illustrates very effectively the way in which a plan can develop its own momentum, regardless of the shortcomings which riddle it. Critically, the plan allowed for only one single road to be available to the Irish Guards for the key northward push. No-one had anticipated that the Dutch people would pour out onto the streets in throngs, thinking that they had been liberated, and thus slowing down the armor. It is easy now to point to the flaws in Market Garden, but at the time it looked like a daring and viable alternative to slogging it out against the Siegfried Line. The intelligence indications of heavily-equipped German units in the zone were ignored because they were inconvenient and from outside the intelligence community. mored column to drive up and relieve them. The sequence of the boarding and dropping of the paratroops is an excellent scene, as is the German ambush which delays the progress of the armored column. Most movies tend to just show the action scenes of the actual battles but fail to show what happened behind the scenes to make the fighting happen. While the movie is a bit long, I would recommend this movie to other people based simply on the fact that it was excellently done, on top of the historical significance it has for a class like ours.
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