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| Title: | After D-Day
: Operation Cobra & the Normandy Breakout |
| Author: | James Jay Carafano |
| ISBN: | 0811734870 : 9780811734875 |
| Illustrations: | 10 b/w illus & 10 maps |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Published: | Stackpole Books - October 2008 |
| List Price: | 12.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | Not yet published |
| Subjects: | World history: Second World War: Military history |
After storming the beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of France bogged down in seven weeks of gruelling attrition in Normandy. On 25 July US divisions under Gen. Omar Bradley launched Operation Cobra, an attempt to break out of the hedgerows and begin a war of movement across France. Despite a disastrous start, with misdropped bombs killing hundreds of GIs, Cobra proved to be one of the most pivotal battles of World War II, successfully breaking the stalemate in Normandy and clearing a path into occupied France.
