Belgium WWII

A Sherman tank stands outside the railway station at Leopoldsburg, in northern Belgium. Most people walk past it. It marks one of the quietest turning points of the war in the west: the morning the ground plan for Operation Market Garden was handed to the men who would carry it out. A cinema called the Splendid "This is a story you will tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be." Edward Fox delivers the line as Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks in the film A Bridge Too Far. The detail of the scene is invented, but the place was real. It stood…