An account of America's involvement in Normandy offers insight into the nation's best strategists and the firsthand experiences of its infantry, providing coverage of D-Day's aftermath, the Falaise Gap slaughter, and the contributions of su...
An account of how, following the German counter-attack at Mortain on 6 August 1944, Generals Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery decided to engage in a wide encircling movement, to trap the enemy divisions which had advanced so far westward...
On 7 August 1944, the Canadian Army, reinforced with British Army units, set four armoured columns south of Caen to close the Falaise Gap. Driving through the night, the British tanks reached their objectives behind German lines and linked ...
German war records, diaries, and eyewitness accounts combined with both an Allied and an Axis perspective strengthen a documentary of the battle of the Falaise pocket and the decimation of the Germany army.
A well-documented story of the tactical indecision and operational carelessness at the highest levels of Allied command that prolonged the war discusses Eisenhower, Bradley, and Montgomery.