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Leo Marriott | Simon Forty Race to the Rhine
liberating France and the Low Countries
The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But in June 1944 -this time with American forces- the Allies finally returned for a rematch. The destruction of German forces in Normandy's Falaise pocket, on August 14, was as quick as the Blitzkrieg had been: by September British troops were in Ghent and Liege; Canadian forces liberated Ostend, and in northeast France Patton's Third Army was moving rapidly...
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Engels | 192 pagina's | Casemate, Oxford | 2015
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