Operation “Market Garden” is an allied military operation fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War, considered by certain military specialists as the biggest, most daring and most dramatic allied airborne operation during the war. This article highlights two phases of this operation: the “Market” (air) phase, which employed fighters, bombers, transport aircraft and gliders with the objective of seizing and securing the bridges in the targeted area, and the “Garden” (ground) phase of the operation, which was intended to allow the ground troops, supported by tanks and infantry, to cross the Netherlands at highest speed, occupy a bridgehead across the Rhine and enter Germany. The author details all the steps of the Battle (17-25 September 1944), mentioning the early successes, the logistic shortcomings, the strong controversies among the most important allied military leaders, the landings, the advances and the German reactions, also pointing out the role played by the Polish Parachute Brigade, commanded by Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski. To conclude, he enumerates the main reasons for the indisputable failure of this Operation, not leaving aside a conspiracy theory belonging to French historian Jacques de Launay. Operacija Market Garden je bila zavezniška vojaška operacija na Nizozemskem in v Nemčiji med drugo svetovno vojno. Po mnenju vojaških strokovnjakov je bila to največja, najbolj drzna in najbolj dramatična zavezniška zračnodesantna operacija v drugi svetovni vojni. V članku sta opisani dve fazi te operacije: (zračna) Market, v kateri so sodelovala lovska letala, bombniki, transportna ter jadralna letala, ki so imela cilj zaseči in zavarovati mostove na ciljnem območju, in (kopenska) Garden, katere namen je bil kopenskim enotam ob podpori tankov in pehote omogočiti, da čim hitreje prečkajo Nizozemsko, zasedejo mostišče čez reko Ren ter vstopijo v Nemčijo. Avtor natančno opiše vse korake te bitke, ki je potekala od 17. do 25. septembra 1944, ter pri tem izpostavi začetne uspehe, ...