Brittany 1944

Fully illustrated study of the race to the Breton ports and the struggle to take them by Patton''s Third Army in the months after D-Day.

One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. Th...