Arnhem
/ˈɑːnəm/
/ˈɑːrnəm/
- a town in the Netherlands, on the River Rhine. A famous Second World War battle took place there in 1944, when Allied forces tried, and failed, to capture a bridge over the Rhine. Thousands of people were killed. The battle was the subject of the film A Bridge Too Far.
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