Monty's Normandy Hammer: Operations Atlantic and Spring

by John Rickard

The first of two volumes, Monty's Normandy Hammer traces the major operations fought by Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds' II Canadian Corps in July 1944. Thrust into the epicentre of the action on the eastern flank, II Canadian Corps planned and executed two major operations to expand Second British Army's elbow room in the bridgehead even while holding the panzer divisions of the vaunted I SS Panzer Corps in place near Caen. Operation ATLANTIC, tied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1036112470
• ISBN13: 9781036112479
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 264 Pages