The Normandy Battlefields - Bocage and Breakout

Oxford: Casemate, 2017. An As New copy in pictorial laminated boards with As New dustjacket. First Edition, First Edition. A large format book printed on glossy paper of 192 pages. Mixing texts, maps, and images, many of them specially commissioned including aerial photography. The book examines the three months after the successful invasion of France - the battle of Normandy. It starts with the advance into the Cotentin and the taking of Cherbourg on June 29, before the attack bogged down in face of determined German defense and the bocage countryside - innumerable small fields surrounded by hedgerows, each one hiding anti-tank weapons, mortars, and machine guns. As the US First Army fought its way south, on the eastern edges of the bridgehead British and Canadian forces were fighting a war of attrition around Caen facing the bulk of the German armor. Like a pressure cooker, the fighting intensified until, seven weeks after D-Day, Operation Cobra broke the German line. Quickly Patton's Third Army, operational from August 1, flooded through the gap exploiting the German confusion, encircling what was left of the German armies in the Falaise Pocket and advancing quickly into Brittany. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.13 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1F. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.