A powerful German counterattack in Normandy in August 1944 might have been one of the Wehrmacht\'s great shining moments in the Second World War.
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Equally important, their Victory prevented the Germans from retaking strategic points that would have kept the war bottled up in Normandy.
Army the confidence it needed to take the war into the enemy\'s homeland.
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Reardon\'s riveting tale reveals that Americans GIs could fight as well as their more vaunted opponent, which gave the U.
Army profited from the bitter lessons of hedgerow fighting to gain superiority in ground maneuver, fire support, and the use of airpower, logistics, communications, and reconnaissance in the face of more experienced and better armed opponents.
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He also tells how the U.
He reveals how professional rivalries and lack of accurate battlefield information hampered the efforts of German generals to execute a successful counteroffensive.
Through vigorous prose laced with compelling anecdotes, Reardon reconstructs the battle from both sides of the firing line to explain why it evolved and ended as it did.
In recounting this showdown, he offers a new perspective on the German defeat in Normandy and a convincing counterpoint to the conventional view of most military analysts that Germany lost the war as a result of Allied materiel superiority or Hitler\'s strategic meddling.
In a vivid recreation of this pivotal battle--less celebrated than the encounter at the Falaise Pocket but just as decisive--Mark Reardon tells how the 30th Infantry Division held off the German Panzer juggernaut, which was designed to drive a wedge between Allied forces.
Instead, the Americans held their ground, enabling the Allied armies to secure the invasion and ultimately liberate France.
Determined to drive the Allies back to the English Channel, elements of four combat-hardened Panzer divisions faced off against a single American infantry division near the town of Mortain.
The odds were certainly in their favor.
A powerful German counterattack in Normandy in August 1944 might have been one of the Wehrmacht\'s great shining moments in the Second World War
