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Chargement... Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944par Mark Zuehlke
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  lamour | Nov 15, 2018 |   This is Zuehlke’s second book covering D-Day. focusing on Canadian troops at Juno Beach. The first book focused on that exact day. This one continues with the days following, from June 7-12, 1944. I liked the first one. I’m not sure if the style was any different (it’s been 3 years since I read it), if I just wasn’t in the mood as much, this time (though I purposely read it over Remembrance Day), or what, but it just didn’t draw me in this time. Some parts did, particularly the 12th SS German group who just went ahead and murdered many POWs – horrifying, but it’s one story of it that sure got my attention! I believe there is supposed to be a third book that also continues this, but I’m not sure of the title. I might still give it a try, I’m not sure. I will likely try a fictional book that he has written, though – a mystery set on Vancouver Island. (  ) LibraryCin | Nov 14, 2016 | A quick, informative, journalistic view of Canada's involvement in the D-Day operation, Juno Beach. Zuehlke's style makes for a well-documented overview of this complex operation, and would do well as a text for schools. (  ) fiverivers | Nov 5, 2012 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieCanadian Battle (5) Prix et récompenses
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.” Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Auteur LibraryThingMark Zuehlke est un auteur LibraryThing, c'est-à-dire un auteur qui catalogue sa bibliothèque personnelle sur LibraryThing. Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)940.54History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War IIClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.95)
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As with the first volume, Zuehlke uses evidence from interviews, memoirs, diaries, regimental histories, and museum staff to cover both sides of an incident so giving a more complete picture of what happen. When you read what the men on both sides experienced you marvel at the fact that they went back at it the next day or maybe the next minute. Despite the horrific descriptions, it is an extremely readable volume thus its size of 454 pages flies past.