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Operation Cobra, 1944 : breakout from Normandy / Steven J. Zaloga ; illustrated by Tony Bryan.
- Title
- Operation Cobra, 1944 : breakout from Normandy / Steven J. Zaloga ; illustrated by Tony Bryan.
- Author
- Zaloga, Steve.
- Publication
- Oxford : Osprey, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- 96 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "One of the most decisive periods of World War II was the 30 days between 25 July and 25 August 1944. After the success of the D-Day landings, the Allied forces found themselves bogged down in a bloody stalemate in Normandy. On 25 July, General Bradley launched Operation Cobra to break the deadlock. US forces punched a hole in the German frontline and began a spectacular advance. As Patton's Third Army poured into Brittany and raced south to the Loire, the German army was threatened with encirclement. By the end of August, German forces in Normandy were utterly destroyed and the remaining German units in central and southern France were in headlong retreat to the German frontier. In this book Steven J. Zaloga explains how the breakout from Normandy came about."
- Series Statement
- Campaign ; 88
- Uniform Title
- Campaign (Osprey Publishing) 88.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 95) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Origins of the Campaign -- Chronology -- Opposing Commanders -- Opposing Armies -- Opposing Plans -- The breakout at St. Lo -- Third Army unleashed -- The Avranches counterattack -- The Falaise Pocket -- Aftermath.
- ISBN
- 1841762962
- OCLC
- 46909279
- SCSB-10677461
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library