Complex sentence: Exploitation of a German retirement from Caen in the wake of Operation Charnwood had not been possible since the Germans only withdrew to the south bank of the Orne and the British had attacked down open slopes commanded by dug in German units.
Split into simpler sentences: Exploitation of a German retirement from Caen in the wake of Operation Charnwood, had not been possible since the Germans only withdrew to the south bank of the Orne. The British had attacked down open slopes commanded by dug in German units.