OPERATION GOODWOOD: July 1944: A Corridor of Death :: World War II :: Time Periods

Dramatic and profusely illustrated story of Operation Goodwood - one of the many frustrating Allied setbacks in the Normandy campaign, as Montgomery’s 700 small tanks faced Rommel’s formidible 200 TIgers and 75 88mm guns.

After the success of the initial D-Day landings in June 1944, the Normandy campaign bogged down around Caen in in a costly stalemate as the Allies, hampered by the small fields and hedges of the Norman bocage, sought painfully to make the big breakout. This book tells the story of Operation Goodwood, Montgomery’s July bid to smash through the enemy using more than 700 tanks in three armoured columns. Facing him, as he had been in the North African desert, was Erwin Rommel with a numerically inferior force of 200 tanks - albeit those were the dreaded Tigers - Nebelwerfer rockets, and some 75 deadly 88mm anti-tank guns. The author, a noted wargame designer, tells the bloody story of Goodwood using detailed maps and many photographs, some never published before. A dramatic account which shows in grim detail why Normandy became a hard slog rather than an easy walkover.

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Product Code:	10370
Author:	Perry Moore
Format:	190pp, b/w photographs, line drawings, maps, hb. Published Price £37.50
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Our Price:	£12.95