September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far - Softcover

"A riveting and deeply moving story of uncommon courage." --Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of The Longest Winter

"McManus's extensive research allows him to tell the story with verve and authority." --Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Army at Dawn

"A testament to men assigned the impossible who, through sheer willpower, almost pulled it off."--The Wall Street Journal

"McManus mines a rich and too-long-neglected vein of stories, many revealed here for the first time."--Mark Bando, author of 101st Airborne: The Screaming Eagles at Normandy

"An absolutely riveting and vivid narrative that captures the full extent of the heroism of America's troops in Operation Market Garden...Military history at its finest."--Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestsellers War Letters and Behind the Lines

"McManus's crisply written book tells of the campaign as seen through the eyes of the privates, sergeants, and captains who jumped into the Netherlands and the air crews who got them there."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A respected military historian and the author of Grunts chronicles the American involvement in Operation Market-Garden in 1944, one of World War II's most ambitious, but crucial invasions against Nazi Germany. 25,000 first printing.