[drzz]

I wonder if you prefer Montgomery to Patton, a general so arrogant and cautious that the battle for Caen lasted so many days that everyone was angered against the British army...

[finnigan2]

“I wonder if you prefer Montgomery to Patton, a general so arrogant and cautious that the battle for Caen lasted so many days that everyone was angered against the British army.”

- I think you will find that Caen was the command center for the German Army in western France and was heavily protected by the best German divisions, all heavily armored. While Montgomery held down heavy German forces in this area it permitted Patton to break out in the more lightly defended south of France. As the Germans tried to adjust to these attacks, Montgomery maneuvered to surround the bulk of the German Army then in France at the battle of the Falaise Gap, where the Germans lost more men and equipment than they had at Stalingrad.