Hold the Bridge: Heroes of the 82nd Airborne Book 5

Allied armies sweep across France in a rollercoaster of military might. The campaign that began on D-Day is heading closer to Germany and the generals have a plan to get there quicker. To take and hold a number of bridges and clear the path to the German Reich. They launch Market Garden, an operation that will utilize vast fleets of aircraft and gliders to carry crack paratroops into Holland. If it succeeds, it will shorten the war. But if it fails…

First Platoon, Company B, drops into Holland to take the bridge at Nijmegen. The plan starts to unravel when they encounter a massive flak gun emplacement, an impenetrable obstacle guarded by elite panzergrenadiers. The 88mm flak guns are taking a heavy toll of troop-carrying C-47s and Waco gliders, and paratroopers are dying under the barrage of heavy shells.

PFC Ray Cassidy and his buddy Harry Byrd have a reputation for disobeying orders to get the job done, and this is no exception. Ignoring the platoon lieutenant, they hatch a plan to attack the panzergrenadiers using an ancient, but tried and tested ruse to lure them into a trap. The mission hangs in the balance, and there are still the flak guns to take care of before they reach the bridge at Nijmegen. A bridge guarded by panzers.

Heroes of the 82nd Airborne Book 5 – Hold the Bridge is the fifth shortread fiction set during the Second World War. The book is a collaboration between Todd McLeod and Eric Meyer, the bestselling author of more than fifty war novels.