Bloody victory : Canadians and the D-Day campaign 1944

Summary: June 6, 1944: the D-Day invasion of Europe ranks among the most dangerous daring military gambles of this century. The Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy is unquestionably the greratest amphibious assault in history. 'Bloody Victories' is the compelling story of the Canadians in the Normandy campaign-how our troops fought their way ashore, battled the best-trained soldiers in Europe and won their bloodstained way to the gap below Falaise. Many histories of D-Day have been written, but more ignore the Canadians, usually lumping them with the British. 'Bloody Victory' reminds us of our forgotten army in that great campaign. In vivid and incisive narrative, combined with powerful and evocative war photographs and art J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton capture the heroism, fortitude and sacrifice of those Canadians who fought and died in the hot summer of 1944. They were almost all green troops, new to battle. They paid for their experience in blood, but they learned quickly as they forged their way into France. In the fields of Normandy, they destroyed the best of the German army and turned the course of the war, saving freedom in Europe and in Canada too.