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Liri Valley

Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome

by (author) Mark Zuehlke

Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Initial publish date
Sep 2020
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771622837
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $27.95

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About the author

Hailed by Jack Granatstein as Canadas leading popular military historian and short-listed for both the 2007 and 2013 Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history, Mark Zuehlke is the author of 26 books, including 14 devoted to military history. Tragedy at Dieppe is the latest in his bestselling Canadian Battle Series, which includes Ortona, The Liri Valley, The Gothic Line, Juno Beach Operation Husky, Holding Juno, Breakout from Juno, Terrible Victory, and On to Victory. He is also the co-author of The Canadian Military Atlas.

Zuehlke first began writing about the role Canadians played in World War II after discussing the Battle of Ortona with several veterans following a Remembrance Day ceremony in Kelowna, B.C. Discovering no book had been written on this pivotal battle, he decided to fill that gap, which resulted in the publication of Ortona: Canadas Epic Worl

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Editorial Reviews

"An exquisitely detailed database of veterans' experiences that's tied together by an elegant, respectful and tellingly brutal narrative of war on the ground."

Globe & Mail

"This book is must reading...it is riveting, often hair-raising account of mechanized warfare and the death, destruction and heartache it entailed."

London Free Press