Operation Totalize 1944: The Allied drive south from Caen - Couverture souple

Hart, Stephen A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472812883 ISBN 13 : 9781472812889

Editeur : Osprey Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

One of the most innovative Allied offensives of the Normandy Campaign, Operation Totalize could have brought the war to an early end.

Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds' II Canadian Corps launched an attack from its positions along the Bourguébus Ridge south of Caen, striking south-southeast astride the main Caen-Falaise road toward the high ground that dominated the town of Falaise and the key west-east lateral road that ran through this town. Using sophisticated operational art the initial break-in achieved rapid success; indeed, more tactical success than any previous Allied break-in attack in Normandy.

However, despite this rapid initial success, Totalize did not subsequently secure a decisive operational-level victory. Indeed, Simonds' forces subsequently struggled swiftly to complete the second break-in battle, and to transit into rapid exploitation operations.

Had Simonds' force been successful the German army may not have been able to extract themselves from the Falaise pocket and would have been surrounded and defeated - possibly bringing about the early end of the war in Europe.

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À propos des auteurs

Dr Stephen A Hart is senior lecturer in the War Studies department, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Prior to this he lectured in the International Studies Department at the University of Surrey, and in the War Studies Department, King's College London. He is the author of Montgomery and the 'Colossal Cracks': The 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe 1944-45 (Praeger, 2000), and has co-authored - with Russell Hart - several popular histories of aspects of the German Army in World War II.

Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani, and Édouard Detaille.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Osprey Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472812883
• ISBN 13: 9781472812889
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Shumate Johnny
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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