No Return Flight: 13 Platoon at Arnhem 1944 Review

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(More customer reviews)just finished reading this excellent book and was deeply touched by the artful way in which the author presented the stories of those men of No. 13 platoon 1st Btl,The Border Regiment and of their sacrifices during and after the Battle of Arnhem. Permit me to express my appreciation of his efforts in researching this book. Having been a journalist myself, I think I have an understanding of the great lengths he went to in what he called the "quest".
This book is a fitting memorial to the heroism and sacrifice of all those who fought in Operation Market Garden, especially as th author described so well, that the battle was not over for those who survived the fighting in and around Oosterbeek. Wars have that tendency to stay with those, who went through them.

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This book tells the story of the search for the men aboard a huge Horsa glider that sailed into the Battle at Arnhem on 18 September 1944. In the early phase of the battle the pilots of the British engineless plane wish their passengers good luck in their race for the Arnhem bridges, probably never to see them again. 54 years later one of the pilots, Sergeant Morley 'Taffy' Williams, visiting the Netherlands for the annual commemorations of the battle, meets a Dutch journalist and expresses his deep wish to find out what happened to his passengers of that fateful flight to Arnhem. Together they decide to start a search for them. Over six years later this investigation has resulted in a moving personal story of the Battle at Arnhem. The captivating stories of the airbornes give the reader a surprising and gripping view on the events. As a fascinating consequence the search has led to several unexpected renewed personal contacts between the pilot and some of his passengers and their relatives. It also rekindled the search for some of Morley's passengers that are still missing.

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