Before EPSOM in June 1944 there remained the chance that a German counterstroke might threaten the bridgehead. After EPSOM, the Allies retained the strategic initiative through to the liberation of France and Belgium. This was a battle in which highly trained but largely inexperienced British ‘follow-up’ divisions, newly arrived in Normandy, confr
For the first book in our new series Over The Battlefield, we have chosen Ian Daglish to describe the events of Operation GOODWOOD, July 1944, the dramatic attempted British armored breakout from the...
After seven weeks of fighting there was a need to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. The main narrative of this book will span the break-in from Caumont in July, through the battles of the following days, to the German counter-attacks in August, the German defense of Estry up to the mid-month, and the final withdrawal from Normandy.
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