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Breakout
After D-Day, Allied armies remain compressed inside the Normandy bridgehead while German forces use the difficult bocage country to slow every advance. Tom Harsker’s Commandos are sent behind the lines to destroy a fuel dump, a mission that places them in the path of enemy units during the struggle to break out of the lodgement.
As the front begins to move, the section becomes involved in the battles around the Falaise pocket and then advances toward Paris. The novel follows ordinary soldiers through the shift from static fighting to pursuit, showing how raids, close infantry combat and exhaustion continue even when the strategic situation finally begins to favour the Allies.
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