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Ortona - Canada's Epic World War II Battle

Ortona - Canada's Epic World War II Battle Paperback - 2004

by Zuehlke, Mark

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Douglas & McIntyre. As New. 2004. Paperback. 1550545574 . This specific paperback book is in like new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "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."; 6.25 X 1.25 X 9.25 inches; 464 pages .
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  • Title Ortona - Canada's Epic World War II Battle
  • Author Zuehlke, Mark
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 443
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver
  • Date 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 25888
  • ISBN 9781550545579 / 1550545574
  • Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.18 x 1.31 in (23.72 x 15.70 x 3.33 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Library of Congress subjects Canada - History, World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003048984
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

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