Having endured 5 years of occupation it seemed their liberation was at hand and WWII Europe would be over soon. But due to poor decision making by the Allied High Command they and the fighting forces of Operation Market Garden would suffer through a terrible fall and winter.
Theres a good movie about this operation. At one point, one of Sean Connery's staff (Sean is a Colonel or General, some big shot) says "Tea sir?" and Sean says " we arent were we are supposed to be, our radios wont work because we have the wrong transistors, our few vehicles are gone, we are completely cut off behind enemy lines with no relief in sight. Now, how the $#@% is tea gonna make things better?" Lots of stars in this war movie, well many war movies of that era had all the big names. Michael Caine and I think James Caan were also in it.
