The Bridge at Remagen (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bridge at Remagen is a war film released in 1969, directed by John Guillermin and starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara and Robert Vaughn. The film is based on the book by Ken Hechler, adapted for screen by Richard Yates and William Roberts, which describes the real life events surrounding the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen on March 7, 1945 by the U.S. 9th Armored Division. In the last months of World War II, the U.S. 1st Army approaches the Ludendorff Bridge, the last bridge standing across the Rhine River, and the last natural barrier between the Allied forces on the Western front, and Germany's industrial heartland. The battle-weary Americans reluctantly obey orders to capture the bridge intact, against a defence force of some 200 German defenders who fight as best they can to avoid destroying it and closing the escape route of 75,000 15th Army comrades on the wrong side of the river Rhine.