And here's yet another Falaise book....
'Falaise - The Flawed Victory' by Anthony Tucker-Jones ( Pen & Sword, ISBN 184415760-1 ). This one continues the welcome trend of considering Normandy from the German angle.
You'll immediately have spotted the first problem - P&S, my least favourite WWII publisher.
As with so many P&S tiles, this one relies almost totally on secondary sources. There's a fairly good bibliography, but there are some surprising omissions - Tieke's
'Firestorm...' perhaps being the main one.
The book - which is sub-sub-titled
'The Destruction Of Panzergruppe West August 1944' - doesn't really add anything fresh to the 'Falaise controversy' and in fact, there isn't an enormous amount in it about the actual fighting at Falaise.
A waste of time then ? Well, no - because the author does attempt something new in a smaller format ; the book gives a broad outline, unit by unit, of each Panzer formation involved in Normandy with a brief pre- and post-history, together with what they actually did in Normandy. This has of course already been done ( brilliantly ) in Lefevre's
'Panzers In Normandy - Then & Now'. But that is a very large format book - this one is far 'handier'.
There are also some fairly good photos. All in all, not the worst P&S book I've seen ; it makes a good companion volume to
'The Germans In Normandy' by Richard Hargreaves ( who has contributed to this forum ).
So - more a book for the Normandy specialist or Falaise completist ( like me ! )
