Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION; PART I; The Last Counter-Attack; Break-out at Avranches; The German Dilemma; The Mortain Counter-attack: Operation 'Luttich'; Operation 'Totalize'; The Decision to Withdraw; PART II; Withdrawal and the Falaise Pocket; Envelopment from the South; Taking Falaise; 'Five Minutes to Midnight'; Closing the Pocket; Break-out; They Failed to Escape; PART III; Crossing the Seine; Retreat to the Seine; Envelopment. The Mantes Bridgehead; Crossing the Seine Barrier; Analysis by the RAF Bombing Unit; No Seine Line Position; The ones that failed to cross; PART IV; >From the Seine to the Westwall; The Second Front in the West; The German Defensive Position in the West; No Respite from the Allies; The First Army and the Mons Pocket; Reprieve of the 15. Armee; Saving Armeegruppe G; The Capture of Gruppe Elster; The End of the Line; A Summer of Disasters; PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS; INDEX.