正如东部的英加军队在D日后发现很难超越卡昂，美国第一集团军也努力穿过西部的诺曼波卡奇地区。在诺曼底战役中发生的致命斗争是一个决定性的插曲，这部摄影史是对它的生动介绍。Simon Foury精选了150多张精心挑选、标题一丝不苟的战时照片，描绘了战争的过程，并为读者提供了条件、地形和部队经历的生动印象。德国人进行了顽强的防守。他们在高树篱中准备好的阵地上作战。每一片狭窄的田野和狭窄的小巷都成了杀戮之地。但美国人调整了战术，引进了包括推土机和带树篱切割机的坦克在内的特殊设备，强行通过。德军使用狙击手、地雷、机枪和大炮，损失惨重。然而，第一军以极大的勇气无情地解决了他们的战术问题，给守军造成了重大伤亡，并开辟了通往圣路易斯的道路。
Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows (Images of War)
Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army laboured to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode in the Normandy campaign, and this photographic history is a vivid introduction to it.Through a selection of over 150 carefully chosen and meticulously captioned wartime photographs Simon Forty traces the course of the battle and gives the reader a graphic impression of the conditions, the terrain and the experience of the troops.The Germans mounted a tenacious defence. They fought from prepared positions in the high hedgerows. Each cramped field and narrow lane became a killing ground. But the Americans adapted their tactics and brought in special equipment including bulldozers and tanks with hedgerow cutters to force their way through.The losses were appalling as the Germans used snipers, mines, machineguns and artillery to great effect. Inexorably, however, and with enormous bravery, First Army solved their tactical problems, inflicted heavy casualties on the defenders and ground their way to Saint-L.
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