Community Media of South Central PA Celebrating Community
Dr. John C. McManus–September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
“The destruction of the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden is a well-known, sad tale, in part because of the famous book and movie A Bridge Too Far. Lesser known is the experience of the two U.S. airborne divisions, the 82nd and 101st both of which jumped into Holland in September, 1944 as part of Market Garden and fought with equal resolve. On this eightieth anniversary, John C. McManus tells their story, from the misbegotten conception of Market Garden to the valorous, last-ditch attempts to snatch victory from the jaws of a tragic defeat.
Dr. John C. McManus is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of U.S. military history at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). He is one of the nation’s leading military historians and has authored fifteen well received books. His work has received numerous awards, including the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award and the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History.
Dr. McManus does frequent speaking engagements and appears on radio and television programs, ranging from CNN, Fox News, C-Span, the Military Channel, the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Netflix, the Smithsonian Network, the History Channel and PBS, among others. During the 2018-2019 academic year, he was in residence at the U.S. Naval Academy as the Leo A. Shifrin Chair of Naval and Military History, a distinguished visiting professorship. In addition, he is the host of two podcasts, Someone Talked! in tandem with the National D-Day Memorial, and We Have Ways of Making You Talk in the USA alongside Al Murray and James Holland.”
