Download or read book Saving the Breakout written by Alwyn Featherston and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the five days in August, 1944 when the Allied campaign in Normandy hinged on the refusal of a few men to give up the tiny village of Mortain despite a massive German counterattack there.