Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches, June 7-12, 1944 by Mark Zuehlke

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Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches, June 7-12, 1944
by Mark Zuehlke


8vo. pp. 424. map illustrations & 16 pages of b/w illustrations. bibliography. index. bds. dw. Vancouver, Toronto & Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, [2005].

New & Out-of-Print in hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1553651022 / ISBN-13: 9781553651024



As June 6, 1944 passed into history, the Allied battled to hold onto the French soil won on D-Day began. Six miles inland from Juno Beach, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division had advanced, at great cost of lives, farther than any other Allied division. But an even grimmer, bloodier fight than winning the beach awaited. Infantry and tankers now slammed head-on into the fury of the 12th SS (Hitlerjugend) Panzer Division, which was determined to hurl the invaders back to sea. For six days, the outcome hung in the balance as the Canadians and fanatical Hitler Youth engaged in close-quarters battle neither side could afford to lose.

Renowned military historian Mark Zuehlke follows up his best selling Juno Beach with a dramatic retelling of this all-or-nothing battled that decided the fate of the Normandy invasion.