The Crisis After D-Day That Forced Eisenhower to Rely on Patton
The beaches of Normandy were won, but the battle for France was on the brink of being lost. By the first week of July 1944, the Allied high command was facing a catastrophe that threatened to unravel the entire invasion. More than 40,000 American soldiers were dead, wounded, or missing in the hedgerows of Normandy, … Read more