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Book Review: Dying for Saint-Lo
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-12-30 17:10:47 635
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Reviewed by Phil Driscoll @ Armchair General
This book covers the hedgerow-to-hedgerow battle in front of St-Lo between German and U.S. forces in Normandy during the period of July 7 – 21, 1944. It is broken into day-by-day accounts of each major section of the battlefield, covering the attacks of the US 2nd, 9th, 29th, 30th, and 35th Infantry divisions and the 3rd Armored Division and, on the German side, Panzer Lehr, 3rd Fallschirmjager Division, 352nd and 353rd Infantry divisions. St Lo, located in the Manche department in the heart of the bocage, was essential for the Germans to hold and for the U.S. to take; it would help set the stage for the Allied breakout that would shortly follow. The U.S. forces would suffer over 12,000 losses; the Germans would lose thousands of crack troops including pioneers, paratroopers and SS panzer grenadiers in this battle of attrition known as "Hedgerow Hell".
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