In the beginning of August 1944, after the American breakthrough at Avranches, the German left wing collapsed. Changing their first project (the conquest of Brittany), the American command decided to envelop all German forces in Normandy by a wide eastward movement. The British Army, south of Caen, was to be the Northern branch. Illustrated with a wide selection of wartime photographs, while full colour is brought on every page by maps of the battlefields, pieces of uniforms and insignia, wartime posters and a variety of military historical artefacts.