Steven J. Zaloga

Operation Cobra 1944 (eBook, ePUB)

Breakout from Normandy
Illustrator: Bryan, Tony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After the success of the D-Day landings, the Allied forces were bogged down in a bloody stalemate in Normandy. On 25 July 1944, General Bradley launched Operation Cobra to break the deadlock.

What followed was one of the most decisive months of World War II, as 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 concise, illustrated account, Steven J. Zaloga explains how the breakout from Normandy came about.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472800053
• Artikelnr.: 40469472

Autorenporträt

Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history, including NVG 294 Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 and NVG 283 American Guided Missiles of World War II. He currently lives in Maryland, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Bibliography
Index