Canadian military historian, , is back with the ninth book in his Canadian Battle Series. Breakout from Juno: First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944 is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings.
, throughout this series, has delivered some of best books of Canadian military history, tackling Canadian battles of the Second World War one at a time and telling us what happened in detail. Each of these books has been welcomed warmly by his readers and this one shows every sign of being up to his usual high standards.
The other eight volumes in the Canadian Battle Series are
Ortona: Canada's Epic World War II Battle
The Liri Valley: Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome
The Gothic Line
Canada's Month of Hell in World War II Italy
Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944
Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944
Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944
Operation Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10-August 7, 1943
On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
| Categories: New Releases |
On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men faced a bloody fight. The Canadians ad...
In one blood-soaked, furious week of fighting, from December 20 to December 27, 1943, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division took the town of Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers...
For the Allied armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944, Rome was the prize that could only be won through a massive offensive. Military historian Mark Zuehlke returns ...
Stretching like an armor-toothed belt across Italy's upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fiercely defended position of Hitler's army, but a bloody 28-day offensive led by Canada's f...
On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among them we...
BOOK EIGHT in the Canadian Battle Series. On to Victory is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as "the sweetest of springs," which...
D-Day ended with the Canadians, who had landed on Juno Beach, six miles inland—the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history. But for all the horror...
BOOK SIX in the Canadian Battle Series Terrible Victory is a gripping account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland, one of our finest, and most costly, military victories. On...
Now available in paperback, book seven of the Canadian Battle Series. On July 10, 1943, twenty thousand Canadian soldiers joined two great Allied armies on the beaches of southern Sicily ...
