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Extract from the Arnhem Travel Guides:
Way south of Groningen,
ARNHEM
was once a wealthy resort, a watering-hole to which the merchants of Amsterdam and Rotterdam would flock to idle away their fortunes. Last century it became better known as the place where thousands of British and Polish troops died in the failed Allied airborne operation of September 1944, code-named "
Operation Market Garden
", which gutted the greater part of the city. What you see today is not especially enticing. But Arnhem is a lively town, with plenty going on, and a good centre for seeing the numerous attractions scattered around its forested outskirts. The best of the o...
read the whole Arnhem Travel Guides...
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