Geoffrey Roberts said it was important for Second World War veterans to be recognised ‘for the ones who didn’t come home’.

The daughter of a World War Two veteran recognised in the King's Birthday Honours said it took "a while" for her father to come to terms with the news. Geoffrey Roberts, 99, from Peterborough, will ...

Mr Roberts, who turns 100 on Saturday, received his MBE from the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace. "I'm surprised actually ...

75 years after the infamous Battle of Arnhem, rare photos reveal terrifying death and destruction as allied troops struggle to liberate Netherlands from the Nazis. Memorialised in the Hollywood blo… ...

Arnhem - Operation Market Garden - is remembered as the largest airborne battle in history and Montgomery’s only major defeat. The allies attempted to gain their bridgehead over the Rhine by ...

Once they had taken Nijmegen bridge, only Arnhem would be left, and the north end at least was still in British hands. It seemed that Operation Market Garden might succeed. But they could not get ...

Buckingham Palace celebrated a special veteran's birthday after King Charles snubbed his son, Prince Harry, by not including ...

On the eve of his 100th birthday Battle of Arnhem warrior Geoff Roberts receives his MBE at Buckingham Palace.

The Battle of Arnhem ended with the near-total destruction of the British Army’s 1st Airborne Division. The Allies’ plan for a quick march into Germany collapsed.

Operation Market Garden was doomed by bad luck, inadequate force concentration and poor command. The attack ended in disaster. Daniel Todman reviews “The Battle of Arnhem” by Antony Beevor.

The Battle of Arnhem : the deadliest airborne operation of World War II / Antony Beevor Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details author Beevor, Antony 1946-Notes "First published in Great ...

The Battle of Arnhem, bestselling historian Antony Beevor's new book tells the story of the largest airborne attack yet mounted in World War II, Operation Market Garden, the Allied offensive of ...