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FIGHTING THE
BREAKOUT
WORLD WAR II GERMAN DEBRIEFS
PUBLISHED BY GREENHILL BOOKS
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE: THE GERMAN VIEW
Perspectives from Hitler ’s High Command
HITLER’S ARDENNES OFFENSIVE
The German View of the Battle of the Bulge
INSIDE THE AFRIKA KORPS
The Crusader Battles, 1941–1942
THE GERMAN ARMY AT D-DAY
Fighting the Invasion
FIGHTING IN NORMANDY
The German Army from D-Day to Villers-Bocage
FIGHTING THE BOMBERS
The Luftwaffe’s Struggle Against the Allied Bomber Offensive
PANZERS ON THE EASTERN FRONT
General Erhard Raus and his Panzer Divisions in Russia, 1941–1945
FIGHTING THE
BREAKOUT
THE GERMAN ARMY IN NORMANDY FROM
‘COBRA’ TO THE FALAISE GAP
by
Generalmajor Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (Chief of Staff,
German Seventh Army) and Generaloberst Paul Hausser (Commander-in-
Chief, German Seventh Army)
with
General der Artillerie Wilhelm Fahrmacher, General der Panzertruppen
Hans Eberbach and General Heinrich Freiherr von Luettwitz
Edited by David C. Isby
Frontline Books
Fighting the Breakout:
The German Army in Normandy from ‘Cobra’ to the Falaise Gap
First published in 2004 by
Greenhill Books
published in this format in 2015 by
Frontline Books
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Fighting the breakout: the German Army in Normandy
from ‘Cobra’ to the Falaise Gap
1. Germany. Heer – History – World War, 1939–1945
2. World War, 1939–1945 – Campaigns – France – Normandy
3. World War, 1939–1945 – Personal narratives, German
I. Luettwitz, Freiherr von
II. Isby, David C.
940.5'42142
ISBN 1-85367-584-9
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