num_pages: 224
description: This account follows the vicious post-D-Day battles fought by the U.S. First Army amid the hedges, ditches and earthen walls of inland France. Illustrated throughout with battle maps and archival photographs accompanied by firsthand accounts, this is a riveting account of war at its most basic level, where in a span of 17 days the First Army suffered 40,000 casualties in a seven-mile advance.
language: English
title: The Battle of the Hedgerows: Bradley's First Army in Normady, June-July 1944
titlecomplete: The Battle of the Hedgerows: Bradley's First Army in Normady, June-July 1944
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Zenith Pr