Bloody GOODGE. Battle of Normandy-44

The capture of the coastal bridgehead in Normandy became the most difficult and bloody stage of the Allied invasion of northwest Europe, since Hitler’s decision to hold the front line to hold the Anglo-American troops forced them to fight in the conditions of a specific landscape, known as the side and to which soldiers and to which the soldiers and the same cost. The officers of the expeditionary forces were not ready either morally or physically. Only a long six weeks of heavy bloody battles and the development of special tactics have allowed to overcome the pattern situation and ensure the conditions for the breakthrough of the Wehrmacht’s defense, the subsequent defeat of the Germans in France and the liberation of Paris.
The new book of the leading domestic historians for the Normandy covers the events of the initial, June phase of the battle in the side, the main milestones of which were the hoping of the capture of the port of Sherbur and two unsuccessful attempts to master the city of Kan - the Operation PECh Eps . Particular attention was paid to the detailed analysis of the battle for Viller-Boker on June 13, 1944, which became the "star hour" of the most famous German tank ace Michael Wittmann