Cornelius Ryan

Cornelius Ryan was an Irish-American journalist and author who wrote some of the most acclaimed accounts of the Second World War. A veteran war correspondent who covered D-Day, he brought a journalist's eye for detail and a novelist's gift for narrative to military history. A Bridge Too Far is his masterpiece — the definitive account of Operation Market Garden, the Allies' disastrous 1944 attempt to end the war by capturing key bridges in the Netherlands. The book was adapted into an epic 1977 film. His audiobooks and books remain essential listening and reading for anyone interested in World War II and the finest military history writing.