Falaise Pocket Author:Paul Latawski In early August 1944, the Allied commanders in Normandy decided to encircle the remains of their German opponents. Under the combined pressure of the Americans and French to the south, the Americans and British to the west and the Canadians and Poles to the north, the net inexorably tightened around ten of thousands of men, sealing the fate of t... more »he German forces in Normandy.« less