The tanks and guns, the trucks and jeeps thundered to the edges of Paris and spread around it. Paris would be the greatest single victory prize of Allied arms since the tides of war rolled back upon the Germans. Paris could probably be had for the taking. But Paris could wait. In strategic sight were even greater prizes: complete destruction of the German armies in northern France; the borders of Germany itself.
If the German armies were destroyed or even driven back beyond the Seine, Paris would fall in General Ike Eisenhower's own good...
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