No Holding Back: Operation Totalize, Normandy, August 1944"We have to risk everything. A breakthrough has occurred near Caen the like of which we have never seen." That stark assessment on 8 August 1944 reflected the German reaction to Operation Totalize, the first attack mounted by First Canadian Army in World War II. Nine days later Canadian infantry rooted out the last German defenders of Falaise, but thousands had escaped from Normandy to fight again. That Totalize and Tractable, its successor, failed to trap the Germans in Normandy has been the subject of controversy for sixty years. In this book, Brian Reidhas undertaken the first detailed study of Totalize and Tractable, including an examination of the part played by both land and air forces in the battles. |
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Canadian Permanent Force Garrisons 1939 1415 | 15 |
Canada Goes to War | 20 |
First Canadian Army in the Field | 39 |
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2nd Canadian Corps 4th Canadian Armoured 51st Highland Division advance air force air support aircraft Algonquin Regiment Allied anti-tank guns armoured regiments artillery attack August BAOR BAOR Battlefield Tour barrage Bataillon battalion Battery battle bombing Bretteville-sur-Laize British Brygada Caen Caen-Falaise Canada Canadian Armoured Brigade Canadian Armoured Division Canadian Army Canadian Corps Canadian Grenadier Guards Canadian Infantry Division capture carriers Cintheaux column commander Company counterattack Crerar crew defence Diary divisional Dywizji enemy Falaise Field Regiment fire forward Gaumesnil German Grenadierregiment Guy Simonds headquarters Infanteriedivision infantry Infantry Brigade Kampfgruppe Kitching Kurt Meyer Lieutenant Colonel machine gun Major Michael Wittmann Montgomery move Normandy objective officers operation Pancernej panzer Phase platoon Polish position Pułk Quesnay Wood reconnaissance Report Rocquancourt Route Nationale Sherman Simonds Simonds's Squadron SS-Panzerdivision Stacey staff tactical tanks targets Tiger TOTALIZE troops units vehicles Victory Campaign Wittmann yards