QUOTES

OPINIONS & REFLECTIONS

• ‘The war will be over by Christmas’
  Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (August 1944)
• ‘Our paratroopers are laying a carpet for our ground troops to march over’
  Lieutenant General Frederick Browning (September 1944)
• ‘We have no regrets’
  Major General Roy Urquhart (January 1945)
  
  
• ‘Ten miles from the bridge, what is the surprise?’
  Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski (September 1944)
  
  
• ‘I think that “Market Garden” was doomed to fail’
  Brigadier John Hackett (1977)
  
  
• ‘This magnificent museum is keeping the memory alive for future generations.’
  HRH Prince Charles on the 60^th anniversary of Operation Market Garden (2004)
   
• ‘On 17 December 1977 the Dutch, who like us suffered so badly during and after the Battle, paid me a great tribute. They gave their famous bridge a new name—the John Frost Bridge.’
  John Frost in his book North End Farm (1980)