Operation "Sea Lion"

[Tellos Athenaios]

What fatherland?

Anyways; Market Garden failed for numerous reasons, and the "Germans knew everything!" plot is kind of exaggerated. For starters the Germans seemed to consider it if anything more of a diversion than the ‘real deal’ -- they had themselves quite enough experience with the terrain to tell that it would 99% sure be a folly, and they also knew that the American members of allied high command were less than convinced about the plan and in particular that Eisenhower was very unlikely to give it all his support (and that turned out to be quite right, Eisenhower didn't -- Mr. Montgomery corresponded extensively about his disagreements with Mr. Eisenhower).

The rest is sort of ‘what did you expect’. Of course the airborne divisions did not hold Arnhem long enough: effectively cut-off from supplies and facing both machine guns and tanks...
Of course the reinforcements never made it on time: moving over ancient dikes a convenient 1m above the landscape so they were basically very slow moving sitting ducks for any kind of artillery; or any kind of armed forces really.