ENFER SUR LA COTE 112

After his failure in front of Caen on June 6th, then the one suffered in Villers-Bocage a few days later, Montgomery relaunched the offensive west of Caen, to bypass the south-west capital of Lower Normandy. This will be Operation Epsom, also called the Battle of Odon or the "Scottish Corridor". But by a serious excess of caution in the middle of some nests of resistance of the Hitlerjugend, it will arrive too late on the Cote 112 where, some elements of this German elite division managed to settle in extremis. This will be the beginning of a terrible battle of annihilation that can be compared to a "Norman Verdun"; the losses will be terrible on both sides and the British will not pass ...
The first panzers of the Hitlerjugend will be reinforced by the arrival of the II.SS-Panzerkorps, with the divisions Hohenstaufen and Frundsberg, but also with the powerful Tiger tanks of the 102nd battalion. Despite powerful elements engaged by the British in the battle, including a very powerful and devastating artillery, crushing the Germans in a flood of steel, despite local successes, quickly postponed, the British will not break and this strategic summit, dominating the west of the plain of Caen, will never be taken forever, the summit, the "Mount Calvary", will be transformed into a real hell. Cote 112 will be abandoned by the Germans only during their general retreat at the end of July.

This book makes you relive this battle day by day and hour by hour, like a real movie, accompanied by the testimonies of the veterans some of which directly communicated to the author, following interviews with these witnesses now missing, but also by a rich iconography.