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Hardcover Death of a Nazi Army: The Falaise Pocket Book

ISBN: 0812830245

ISBN13: 9780812830248

Death of a Nazi Army: The Falaise Pocket

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For seven weeks after D-Day, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops were bottled up along the landing beaches. Finally, 3,000 American and British planes bombarded a narrow path into enemy territory,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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A very nice account of the Falaise battle. It reads like a novel

William Breuer has turned his attention to July-August 1944 campaign at Falaise, where the advancing Allies trapped the Germans in a lethal pincer and inflicted a terrible defeat. Hitler's attempt to drive a wedge between the advancing Allied armies was a tactic that might have worked, but as you'll see here in detai, battle-tested American units refused to budge in the face of the German counterattacks. The Wehrmacht was instead driven back and encircled in a trap that swallowed up not only Hitler's 7th Army but also 5th Panzer Army and elements of the 15th Army. Breuer doesn's skimp when ot comes to giving you the tactical big picture. He tells you how Adolf Hitler, surrounded by yes me in Berlin, ordered his armies into the Allies' trap. You'll see how Omar Bradley made one of the biggest gambles of the war - with the help of brash commanders like George Patton - and won. Aqnd ypuu'll also learn why the Falaise trap could have ended WW II but failed. Rich in anecdotes and rippling with small-unit action, this book could be a superb look at a little studied aspect of WW II, if Breuer didn' t insist to misspell German General's Heinrich Eberbach's name as Heinz Eberhard throughout the text (for which it loses the fifth star).
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