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A masterful retelling one of the major victories of Canadian troops over the German army’s elite division during WWII.
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 ordered to hold the medieval port town at all costs. Infantrymen serving in the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and the Seaforth Highlanders, supported by tankers of the Three Rivers Regiment, moved from house to house in hand-to-hand combat amid heavy shelling and wrested the town from the grip of the fierce German defenders. Getting into Ortona had been a battle of its own. Ortona, the pearl of the Adriatic, stands on a promontory impregnable from three sides, with seacliffs on the north and east, and a deep ravine on the west. The Canadian infantrymen, drawn from virtually every corner of Canada, attacked from the south under the command of Major-General Chris Vokes, fighting across narrow gullies, mud-choked vineyards and olive groves, into the narrow streets of Ortona itself. When the vicious battle was over, 2605 Canadians were dead or wounded. But the town that had become known as "Little Stalingrad" was now in Allied hands.
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Mark Zuehlke is the author of the critically acclaimed Canadian Battle Series and many other books. He has worked as a journalist, been educated as a historian and written award-winning fiction. The Canadian Battle Series is the most detailed accounting of any army during World War II ever written by a single author. In recognition of his work, Mark Zuehlke has been shortlisted for the Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Popular Media - The Pierre Berton Award. The award will be presented on Tuesday, November 19th, 2013. Zuehlke lives in Victoria, B.C.
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"Mark Zuehlke's book is a heart-stopping intimate look at all the brutal excesses of war...it is a fascinating read, rich in anecdotes." (Toronto Star 2003-03-07)
"Zuehlke brings the battle for Ortona and the men who fought it back to life...This is a book which reveals what war is really like." (Esprit de Corps 2003-03-07)
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- PublisherDouglas & McIntyre
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1550545574
- ISBN 13 9781550545579
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages464
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