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Hell’s Highway, 1944 - John Antal Turns a Game into a Narrative
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-11-21 17:28:27 374
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By John Antal @ Armchair General
Editor’s Note: The January 2009 issue of Armchair General magazine featured the Combat department article, “Hell’s Highway, 1944.” This exciting tactical decision game placed readers in the role of Staff Sergeant Matthew Baker leading a combined U.S.–British recon squad of 101st Airborne Division paratroopers and infantrymen of the British Irish Guards Regiment. The squad’s mission is part of the largest airborne operation of World War II – Operation Market-Garden, involving 35,000 Allied paratroops and the armored forces of the British XXX Corps, in September 1944. The 60-mile long road over which XXX Corps fought its way in an attempt to link up with beleaguered British and Polish paratroopers attacking the key bridge over the lower Rhine River at Arnhem became known as “Hell’s Highway.”
The following article by John Antal is the action-packed story of how Sgt. Baker’s squad accomplished the mission presented in the ACG magazine Combat article. It is adapted from his new novel, Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, a companion book to the exciting new “must have” video game from Ubisoft/Gearbox.
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