Battle Zone Normandy: Battle for St-Lô
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- ISBN 9780750930185
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2004
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Several elite German divisions were ordered to the St-Lo sector to counter the American threat from Carentan, captured on 12 June. By concentrating their defences twelve miles inland, these German forces halted the US advance before St-Lo, despite costly American attacks in the difficult bocage countryside. The town fell to 29th Infantry Division on 18 July, the decimated American attackers finally taking possession of its cratered landscape in which hardly a building remained standing. Over a month later than planned, St-Lo's occupation opened the way for the Allies' advance to the Seine river and victory in Normandy.
Nigel de Lee studied History at Leeds University, War Studies at the University of London and International Relations at Cambridge. In the course of a thirty-year teaching career, he has taught at the Royal Military Acadamy Sandhurst, the US Military Academy at West Point and the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He lives in East Yorkshire.
