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Operation Market Garden: The Campaign for the Low Countries, Autumn 1944: Seventy Years On is the result of a major international conference held at the University of Wolverhampton in September 2014. The contributors are drawn from a body of historians, military professionals and researchers who met to reevaluate these questions after the passage of 70 years. It highlights many new areas of interest and forces us to rethink our understanding of this pivotal period of the Second World War. AUTHORS: John Buckley is professor of military history at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and the author and editor of six books on the military history of the Second World War. Dr Peter Preston-Hough was a visiting lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and University of Chester. He had a lifelong interest in the history of the Royal Air Force particularly from 1939 and in airborne warfare from its earliest days. Peter died in 2017. 3 b/w photographs, 8pp colour maps

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John Buckley is professor of military history at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and the author and editor of six books on the military history of the Second World War. Dr Peter Preston-Hough is a visiting lecturer in the War Studies Department of the University of Wolverhampton and the History Department of the University of Chester. He lectures to undergraduates and postgraduates on aspects of air power since its inception in the twentieth century. His areas of interest include the Royal Air Force; the Strategic Air Offensive 1940–1945; 617 Squadron in the Second World War; the Air Superiority Campaign in the Far East 1939–1945; and airborne warfare and airborne operations, particularly in Normandy and during Operation Market Garden 1944. Dr Preston-Hough's first book, ""Commanding Far Eastern Skies"", is due to be launched in May 2015 and will be published by Helion. He is currently working on a study of Airborne operations in Europe in 1944. John Buckley is professor of military history at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and the author and editor of six books on the military history of the Second World War. Dr Peter Preston-Hough is a visiting lecturer in the War Studies Department of the University of Wolverhampton and the History Department of the University of Chester. He lectures to undergraduates and postgraduates on aspects of air power since its inception in the twentieth century. His areas of interest include the Royal Air Force; the Strategic Air Offensive 1940–1945; 617 Squadron in the Second World War; the Air Superiority Campaign in the Far East 1939–1945; and airborne warfare and airborne operations, particularly in Normandy and during Operation Market Garden 1944. Dr Preston-Hough's first book, ""Commanding Far Eastern Skies"", is due to be launched in May 2015 and will be published by Helion. He is currently working on a study of Airborne operations in Europe in 1944.

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