To counter the D Day landings on June 6, 1944, the Germans threw everything they had at the Allies, having already assessed if the Allies got a foothold, the war was lost.  For two agonizing months, the Allies measured daily progress in yards rather than miles in a horrific war of attrition in the Province of Normandy.  Finally in August, the US forces in western France broke the German lines, headed south, and then turned straight east.  At the same time, Commonwealth forces in eastern Normandy pushed south with the goal of linking up with the oncoming Americans and capturing hundreds of thousands of German POWs.  As the trap closed near a town called Falaise, the last route out was brutally contested by both sides.

With my son, my wife and I are reading “Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation,” by Stuart Gibbs, which is a more serious spy thriller coincidentally also about a 12-year-old, this one being a genius girl working in tandem with the CIA to obtain a dangerous lost Einstein equation. 

Once the school year wraps up, I’ll be resuming my re-read of Discworld, starting with Thud!

  I just finished SIERRA SIX by Mark Greaney. This was my first foray into the [GREY MAN] novels. Very enjoyable, fast paced action adventure. Will definitely seek out the other books in this series.