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Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows - Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Paperback)
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Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows - Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Paperback)
Series: Images of War
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Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to
advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army laboured to
advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal
struggle that developed there was a defining episode in the
Normandy campaign, and this photographic history is a vivid
introduction to it. Through a selection of over 150 carefully
chosen and meticulously captioned�wartime photographs Simon
Forty traces the course of the battle and gives the reader a
graphic impression of the conditions, the terrain and the
experience of the troops. The Germans mounted a tenacious defence.
They fought from prepared positions in the high hedgerows. Each
cramped field and narrow lane became a killing ground. But the
Americans adapted their tactics and brought in special equipment
including bulldozers and tanks with hedgerow cutters to force their
way through. The losses were appalling as the Germans used snipers,
mines, machineguns and artillery to great effect. Inexorably,
however, and with enormous bravery, First Army solved their
tactical problems, inflicted heavy casualties on the defenders and
ground their way to Saint-L�.
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