Four Hours of Fury: Operation Varsity and the Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion
On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned toward Germany. The armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war's largest airdrop, this invasion smashed Germany's last line of defense and the war in Europe ended less than two months later.FOUR HOURS OF FURY follows the 17th Airborne Division as they prepare for Operation Varsity, a campaign that would rival Normandy in scale and become one of the most successful and important of the war.
