LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mark zuehlke

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  • With A Few Guns
    Brian Reid / Mark Zuehlke / Wolf Riedel
    Thank God, the Guns!A richly detailed examination of the operations of Canadian artillery during the early part of the war in Afghanistan, from 2002 to 2006. Based on hundreds of interviews and primary source documents, there is no other work that details the incredible contribution of The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. ...
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    27,39 €

  • Juno Beach
    Mark Zuehlke
    On June 6, 1944 the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among this number were 18,000 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a wide expanse of sand. Code named Juno Beach. Here, sheltered inside concrete bunkers and dee...
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    22,46 €

  • Holding Juno
    Mark Zuehlke
    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, farther 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 toeh...
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    22,40 €

  • Breakout from Juno
    Mark Zuehlke
    On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men faced a bloody fight. The Canadians advanced relentlessly against Hitler’s finest armoured divisions, at a great cost in bloodshed. Initially, only the 3rd Division was involved, but in a couple of weeks two other Canadian division...
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    22,01 €

  • The Liri Valley
    Mark Zuehlke
    For the Allied armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944, Rome was the prize that could be won through one of the greatest offensives of the war. The Liri Valley was a long, flat corridor through miles of rugged mountains. At one end stood the formidable Monte Cassino, at the other, Rome. In May 1944, I Canadian Corps drove up this valley toward the Italian ca...
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    22,04 €

  • The Gothic Line
    Mark Zuehlke
    In this third volume of his critically acclaimed trilogy tracing Canada’s involvement in World War II’s Italian campaign, Mark Zuehlke vividly recounts the Battle of the Gothic Line. The line was meant to be impregnable, a final fortified position that would enable the battered German divisions to bring the Allied advance up Italy’s boot to a decisive halt. On August 25, 1944, ...
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    21,74 €

  • Ortona
    Mark Zuehlke
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    22,26 €

  • On to Victory
    Mark Zuehlke
    BOOK EIGHT in the Canadian Battle Series.On to Victory is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as "the sweetest of springs," which saw the country's liberation from German occupation. The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles during the last three months of the war, was bittersweet. A nation's ...
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    21,92 €

  • Terrible Victory
    Mark Zuehlke
    BOOK SIX in the Canadian Battle SeriesTerrible Victory is a gripping account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland, one of our finest, and most costly, military victories.On September 4, 1944, Antwerp, Europe's largest port, fell to the Second British Army and it seemed the war would soon be won. But Antwerp was of little value unless the West Scheldt Estuary...
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    21,81 €