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The Battle of the Generals: The Untold Story of the Falaise Pocket, the Campaign That Should Have Won World War II
The Battle of the Generals The Untold Story of the Falaise Pocket the Campaign That Should Have Won World War II Author:Martin Blumenson, Roy L. Griggs According to General Omar Bradley, it was a chance that "comes to a commander once in a century." The opportunity was to surround and destroy the enemy armies, opposing the Allies in Normandy. Three months after the Allies invaded France on D-Day, the Germans had stuck their heads into a noose and made themselves vulnerable to en... more »circlement and annihilation in the Falaise Pocket. Had the Allies succeeded in springing the trap at Falaise quickly enough, they would almost certainly have brought World War II in Western Europe to a triumphant end.
Instead, the Allies failed and unnecessarily prolonged the war for another eight months.« less