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This book is based on the allies airborne attack on the Nazis codenamed Operation Market Garden. This was an audacious attempt to end WWII. The operation was a series of an airborne assault on bridges over the Rhine in Nazi-German occupied Holland. The operation was a failure and it resulted in heavy allied casualties. The title of the book comes from a statement made about the planned assault, one of the commanders of the operation stated to Field Marshall Montgomery, that the operation was flawed and that "I think we may be going a bridge too far." Ryan’s views changed the publics views of Market Garden and the events in the liberation of Europe. Prior to this book, many had erroneously believed that the operation had been a limited success. Ryan’s exposed the incompetence of the British general-staff, his work is full of stirring account of the bravery of the ordinary allied paratroopers and soldiers. Ryan’s book shows the main events in Market Garden and gives the Dutch and German perspective. The work focuses to a large extent on the allies’ failure to take and hold the key bridge at Arnhem. The movie was turned into a star-studded Hollywood blockbuster in 1977. [[File: A Bridge Too Far - 1974 Book Cover.jpg|200px|thumb|left|the cover of the first edition of A Bridge Too Far]]

<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345472640/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345472640&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e0985038550d22cc5eb2eb140c29734d We Were Soldiers Once and … Young]</i>, Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway (New York, Presido Press, 1992)==We Were Soldiers Once… and Young is a 1992 non-fiction work written by an officer who served in the war (Moore) and a journalist (Galloway) about one of the key battles of the Vietnam War. The narrative focuses on one of the first set-piece battles of the war. The central events depicted in the work is the Battle of la Drang Valley. The battle saw the 1st and the 2nd battalion of the famous 7th Cavalry Regiment engage with a division of North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong guerrillas. The work describes the brutality of the battle and how the Americans were able to prevail after a vicious battle. It does not hesitate to show that the battle was a bloody affair and shows the suffering of the ordinary soldier. The work also shows that while the battle was a tactical defeat for the Communists they came to believe that they could defeat the US after la Drang. The work was very well received and many critics claimed that it was the finest example of military history written in years. Mel Gibson bought the movie rights for the book and in 2002 he produced and directed a movie based on the work of Moore and Galloway.

Brickhall was an Australian fighter pilot during WWII. He was later captured and imprisoned in a German POW camp, Stalag Luft iii. The camp held captured American, British and other allied soldiers. There was a mass breakout from the camp, which was located in Nazi German occupied Poland. The allied prisoners dug a tunnel and dozens of them escaped in what was the biggest prison break from a German POW camp. Brickhall had been part of the escape-plan but he had not been able to take part in the tunneling or the escape because he suffered from claustrophobia. After the war, Brickhall became a journalist and in 1950 he published an account of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft iii. The book is a fast based and largely accurate account of the preparation of the escape, the fate of the escapees and the aftermath. It did much to raise awareness of the escape which had largely gone unnoticed during the war. The book was turned into a movie also called the ‘Great Escape’ by United Artists in 1963 and it starred some of the biggest names in Hollywood at the time. It was a great success and the movie remains a much loved classic war movie.