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. B... [More]