Breakout and Pursuit (United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations Volume 3)

xix, 748 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 11 tables, 9 charts, 16 maps, 64 illustrations, 7 appendices, bibliographical notes, glossaries, and index. "...covers the 'Battle of the Hedgerows' leading to Operation Cobra and victory in Normandy. The Falaise-Argentan pocket and the Mortain counterattack are also included, as are operations in Brittany, the reduction of Brest, and liberation of Paris. The volume closes with the pursuit across northern France and Belgium by the U.S. First and Third Armies, ending in early September at the German frontier and the gates of Lorraine" (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 70-77).