The General Who Predicted Market Garden's Failure - And Paid the Price

On October 5th, 1944, Field Marshal Montgomery wrote to Polish General Stanislaw Sosabowski praising his brigade's bravery at Arnhem. Nine days later, Montgomery sent a secret letter to London calling the same Poles cowards who showed no keenness to fight - a lie designed to create a scapegoat for the Market Garden disaster. Drawing on Sosabowski's memoirs, British military records, and post-war testimonies, this documentary examines how the general who warned against Market Garden's fatal flaws was systematically destroyed by the commanders whose egos couldn't accept failure. What happens when telling the truth becomes unforgivable? When being right costs you everything? Sosabowski spent his final decades as an anonymous factory worker in London, his coworkers unaware they worked alongside one of the war's most distinguished commanders.

Sources:
Stanislaw Sosabowski - "Freely I Served" (Memoir, Battery Press, 1960/1982)
George F. Cholewczynski - "Poles Apart: The Polish Airborne at the Battle of Arnhem" (Sarpedon Publishers, 1993)
William F. Buckingham - "Arnhem 1944" (Tempus Publishing, 2004)
Cornelius Ryan - "A Bridge Too Far" (Simon & Schuster, 1974)
National Archives UK - "Operation Market Garden After-Action Reports, September-October 1944"

Image Credits:
Sosabowski monument, Lębork courtesy MOs810, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sosabowski memorial display, Sanok courtesy Lowdown, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tiger I tank courtesy German Federal Archives, CC BY-SA 3.0 de