

Breaking out of the Bocage (Normandy)
Volume 1: 30 July - 16 August 1944 : Villers-Bocage, Aunay-sur-Odon, Le Mont-Pinçon, Condé-sur-Noireau
After Operation Cobra, Monty transferred the VII Corps and XXX Corps divisions to the Caumont sector for an attack launched on 30 July: this was Bluecoat with the capture of Mont Pinçon (9-15 August) and the attack towards Flers. The British losses were very high against the Tigers and the Jagdpanthers in the elite German units. This detailed study is based on a lot of photographs, maps and testimonies, most of them unpublished, as well as the units’ logbooks.