Netherlands

<p><span class="deck">Over 350 years a mighty pageant of history has moved through the myth-haunted valley of the “Great River of the Mountains”</span> </p>

<p>Operation Market-Garden promised to lay an airborne red carpet to victory, but its final objective proved to be “a bridge to far.”</p>

<p><span class="deck">“One nation is a copy of the other,” said John Adams on his first visit to the Netherlands; two centuries later, an American visitor to Holland can still trace the connection.</span></p>