Bloody Victory Canadians and the D-Day campaign 1944

Toronto, Ontario: Lester & Orpen Dennys. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0886190460 . Blue hardcovers / silver titles to the spine. In Very Good++ condition with a solid binding, pages are clean & unmarked, there is little wear to the spine ends and corners. The DJ is Very Good + , no tears or marks. "In Normandy, "Canadians had no voice in strategy. They were its instruments struggling to find the tactics to fight an enemy that always seemed better trained and far better armed." The struggle was a bitter one, and casualties were high. For the Black Watch at Verrières Ridge, 123 were killed. One of the few survivors was asked why he had gone forward to such certain doom. "I guess," he replied, "that that's what they expected from the Black Watch." To the authors, the men of the Canadian army, "mastered their craft in the crucible of war, and in doing so destroyed the flower of the German army..." The explicit and well-organized prose of Bloody Victory is enhanced by four photo album sections with over a hundred pictures and paintings. These photos and war art are well reproduced and add a telling dimension to this story. In addition there are five maps, not all of which are easy to follow. A special section entitled "Among Those Heroes Present", includes two dozen men chosen at random by the authors. These men performed heroically on the beaches and inland. A "Further Reading" section comments on the literature on this period of the Second World War.; 9.90 X 7.70 X 0.90 inches; 240 pages; Box 7 .