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Al Murray walks the Oosterbeek Perimeter

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 3 a.m.

On day four of Operation Market Garden, British commanding officer Roy Urquhart gave up trying to relieve John Frost at Arnhem bridge and instead ordered his remaining men to form a defensive perimeter around the village of Oosterbeek. Al Murray explores the small pocket in which three thousand British troops grimly hung on waiting for a relief force that would never arrive. A Goalhanger Films production. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy