Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1944-1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Collection includes five postcards, four of which are of British troops from 1 Airborne Div at Hotel De Tafelberg, Oosterbeek, Netherlands, during Operation MARKET GARDEN, the Allied attempt to establish a bridgehead across the Rhine river at Arnhem, 17 Sep-25 Sep 1944, and one of the Airborne Monument at Oosterbeek, built by J Maris, 1946; and a personal account by Henk B van der Horst entitled, Paratroopers Jump, Fury over Arnhem (Boekhandel Romijn, Oosterbeek, 1946), relating to the Allied airborne offensive at Arnhem, 17 Sep-25 Sep 1944.
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre in 1983 and 1984 by Dr Michael Dockrill, Department of War Studies, King's College, London
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Compiled Oct 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Airborne warfare
- Architecture
- Armed forces
- Documents
- Humanitarian law
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Memoirs
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Monuments
- Occupied territories
- Operation Market Garden (1944)
- Organizations
- State security
- War
- Warfare
- War memorials
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.