Falaise

Patton drove eastward and then First Army, on his left, turned north and nearly closed the gap between Falaise and Argentan, south of Caen, resulting in the deadly killing ground known as the Falaise Pocket.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

Coming through in August as a replacement into a French town called Falaise after the big battle there, I saw enough dead Germans rotting in stacks on the ground to last me a lifetime.

Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994

There the two forces hoped to encircle and trap around 100,000 German troops, in what became known as the Falaise Pocket.

The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

There the two forces hoped to encircle and trap around 100,000 German troops, in what became known as the Falaise Pocket.

The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

Its trade is due to its position in the agricultural and horse-breeding district known as the "Campagne de Caen" and to its proximity to the iron mines of the Orne valley, and to manufacturing towns such as Falaise, Le Mans, &c. In the south-east of the town there is a floating basin lined with quays and connected with the Orne and with the canal which debouches into the sea at Ouistreham 9 m. to the

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(known officially as D+1) and was immediately thrown into action in towns such as Falaise,

Your Local Guardian | Sutton 2009

And now John Prados has thrown his hat into the ring with "Normandy Crucible," a workmanlike account of the campaign from D-Day to the closing of the Falaise Gap in late August 1944.

How the Battle Was Won, if Not Yet the War Alexander Rose 2011

De la Falaise met YSL in 1968, and she soon joined his house, designing jewelry and clothing.

LouLou De La Falaise, YSL Muse, Dies At 63 (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Born in Britain, Louise Vava Lucia Henriette de la Falaise was the daughter of an Irish mother, Maxime Birley, who was an occasional model for Elsa Schiaparelli, and a French father, Alain de la Falaise.

LouLou De La Falaise, YSL Muse, Dies At 63 (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Some filmmakers tried to keep the genre alive, most notably the Marquis Henry de la Falaise de la Coudraye, an aristocrat whose Hollywood star wife Constance Bennett provided financial backing for his Borneo-based documentaries “Legong” (1935) and the Vietnamese-based “Kiliou, The Killer” (1937).

Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009