Brittany 1944

Hitler’s Final Defenses in France

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Brittany 1944

Hitler’s Final Defenses in France

Description

Fully illustrated study of the race to the Breton ports and the struggle to take them by Patton's Third Army in the months after D-Day.

One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. This included the major ports at Brest and on Quiberon Bay.

The newly arrived Third US Army (TUSA) under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton was delegated to take on the Brittany mission. In one of the most rapid mechanized advances of the war, TUSA had the ports of Avranches and Quiberon encircled by the second week of August 1944.

But changing priorities meant that most of TUSA was redeployed, meaning only a single corps was left to take the Breton port cities. The fight would drag into 1945, long after German field armies had been driven from France. Using full colour maps and artwork as well as contemporary accounts and photographs, Brittany 1944 is the fascinating story of the siege of Germany's last bastions on the French Atlantic coast.

Table of Contents

Origins of the campaign
Chronology


Opposing commanders
Opposing armies
Orders of battle
Opposing plans
The campaign

Aftermath
The battlefields today
Further reading
Index

Product details

Published 19 Apr 2018
Format Ebook (Epub)
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781472827388
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 320
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Steven J. Zaloga

Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from U…

Illustrator

Darren Tan

Born and raised in Malaysia, Darren Tan grew up dr…

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