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Loxleys and the War of 1812

2nd Edition

AvAlan Grant,Mark Zuehlke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

218 kr

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Loxleys and Confederation

AvMark Zuehlke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

218 kr

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Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons

British Remittance Men in the Canadian West

AvMark Zuehlke

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

169 kr

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Juno Beach

Canada's D-Day Victory June 6, 1944

AvMark Zuehlke

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

213 kr

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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 this number were 18,000 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a wide expanse of sand. Code named Juno Beach. Here, sheltered inside concrete bunkers and deep trenches, hundreds of German soldiers waited to strike the first assault wave with some ninety 88-millimetre guns, fifty mortars, and four hundred machineguns. A four-foot-high sea wall ran across the breadth of the beach and extending from it into the surf itself were ranks of tangled barbed wire, tank and vessel obstacles, and a maze of mines.Of the five Allied forces landing that day, they were scheduled to be the last to reach the sand. Juno was also the most exposed beach, their day’s objectives eleven miles inland were farther away than any others, and the opposition awaiting them was believed greater than that facing any other force. At battle's end one out of every six Canadians in the invasion force was either dead or wounded. Yet their grip on Juno Beach was firm.

Holding Juno

Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944

AvMark Zuehlke

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

213 kr

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Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history. But for all the horror endured on June 6 every soldier knew the worst was yet to come. The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself. Although battered and bloody, the Canadians had held their ground and made it possible for the slow advance toward Germany and eventual Allied victory to begin.Holding Juno recreates this pivotal battle through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it, with the same dramatic intensity and factual detail that made Juno Beach, in the words of Quill & Quire reviewer Michael Clark, the defining popular history of Canada’s D-Day battle.”

Breakout from Juno

First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944

AvMark Zuehlke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

278 kr

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On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23--May 5, 1945

AvMark Zuehlke

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

327 kr

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Breakout From Juno

First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944

AvMark Zuehlke

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

235 kr

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The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings. 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 advanced relentlessly at a great cost in bloodshed. Within 2 weeks the 2nd Infantry and 4th Armoured divisions joined coming together as the First Canadian Army. The soldiers fought within a narrow landscape extending a mere 21 miles from Caen to Falaise. They won a two-day battle for Verrieres Ridge starting on July 21, after 1,500 casualties. More bloody battles followed, until finally, on August 21, the narrowing gap that had been developing at Falaise closed when American and Canadian troops shook hands. The German army in Normandy had been destroyed, only 18,000 of about 400,000 men escaping. The Allies suffered 206,000 casualties, of which 18,444 were Canadians.Breakout from Juno is a story of uncommon heroism, endurance and sacrifice by Canada's World War II volunteer army and pays tribute to Canada's veterans.