Paper on WWII

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.