Mont Pinçon

Eric Hunt’s Mont Pinçon: Normandy is the riveting military history of the British advancement into occupied France after D-Day. In late July 1944, the Allies began their breakout from the Normandy beachheads. The Americans in Operation Cobra and the British in Operation Bluecoat . VIII and XXX British Corps were to seize the dominating ground running north west from Mont Pinçon and exploit towards Vire. Mont Pinçon is the highest hill in Normandy and is a formidable obstacle as well as magnifice