Operation Bluecoat: Breakout from Normandy

by Ian Daglish

After seven weeks of bitter fighting there was a desperate need to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In late July 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey's Second Army moved two entire corps from the Caen sector to the relatively quiet countryside around Caumont. Here, the British XXX Corps prepared to give battle, with VII Corps advancing in support on the right flank between XXX Corps and the American first Army. The offensive did not go to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848840497
• ISBN13: 9781848840492
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.3"