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

BOOK FIVE in the Canadian Battle Series As June 6, 1944 passed into history, the Allied battle 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 in lives, father than any other Allied division. But for all the horror endured on June 6, every soldier digging in on this front line knew worse was yet to come, for the Allied toehold on the Normandy coast was extremely tenuous, and out in teh darkness beyond no man's land the fury of the 12th SS (Hitlerjugend) Panzer Division was massing, intent on throwing the invaders back into the sea. For six days, the outcome hung in the balance as the Canadians and the fanatical Hitler Youth engaged in a close quarters battle neither side could afford to lose. Renowned military historian Mark Zuehlkefollows up his best-selling Juno Beachwith this dramatic retelling of the all-or-nothing battle that decided the fate of the Normandy invasion.Zuehlke, Mark is the author of 'Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944', published 2006 under ISBN 9781553651949 and ISBN 1553651944.