<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mw7A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: Launch of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ratweek_(1944)" id="mw7Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Ratweek (1944)">Operation Ratweek</a>, complicating German retreat. <sup about="#mwt84" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_1#cite_note-17" id="mw7g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw7w">[17]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"><cite about="#mwt81" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMaclean1991"><a href="./Sir_Fitzroy_Maclean,_1st_Baronet" id="mwB50" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet">Maclean, Fitzroy</a> (1991). <i id="mwB54">Eastern Approaches</i>. London: Penguin Books. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB58" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB6A" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-141-04284-8" id="mwB6E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-141-04284-8"><bdi id="mwB6I">978-0-141-04284-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt81" class="Z3988" id="mwB6M" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Eastern+Approaches&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pub=Penguin+Books&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-141-04284-8&amp;rft.aulast=Maclean&amp;rft.aufirst=Fitzroy&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+1"></span></span>