Breakout: Drive to the Seine (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Campaign Book, No. 4)

160 pp. Six weeks after D-Day the Allies were still entangled in the Normandy hedgerow country. Then the American VII Corps mounted Operation Cobra, and on July 27th, 30th Division's commander could say jubilantly--"This thing has busted wide open. We may be the spearhead that broke the camel's back."