The History Hour - The Arnhem Parachute Drop

The Arnhem Parachute Drop

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Operation Market Garden - the failed attempt to end the war against Hitler; plus, a deadly nuclear accident in Brazil, the film of the Battle of Algiers, the last regular steam train to run in Britain and one of the Cuban Five jailed in America for spying for Fidel Castro.

(Photo: Allied planes and parachutists over Arnhem, Getty Images)

Published on Saturday, 22nd September 2018.

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