Episode 71: Market Garden - The Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade

Our MASSIVE multi-episode Operation Market Garden series continues. We're moving along, pushing out a great deal of content and now only a few episodes remain.   Matt Visser, who works as a research assistant on the podcast, hosts this episode for traditional host Joe Buccino.   We actually had to add a few episodes to this miniseries on Market Garden. We originally were planning for a 9-day, 9-episode piece to run in concert with the 77th anniversary of the actual operation (September 17 to 25, 1944). However, to be fair to the full scope of this story, we've decided to go with 11 episodes over 11 days.   In this, episode 71, the 9th on Market Garden, we welcome Jennifer Grant, a postgraduate researcher specializing in the Polish Armed Forces at the Queen Mary University of London   Jennifer represents the Polish perspective in the allied operation. She describes the objectives and actions of the 1st Independent Airborne Brigade in Arnhem. She also describes the complicated legacy of Stanisław Sosabowski, the commander of that unit.   Jennifer Grant offers some real thoughtful insight; a fantastic overview of a complicated aspect of Market Garden. This story really cannot be told in full without an understanding of the Polish airborne. Our Market Garden miniseries began in Episode 63 and ends on Monday, September 27th with the release of Episode 73. If you haven't been following along, we recommend you go back through on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and listen to all episodes in this series.