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Seven days in hell : Canada's battle for Normandy and the rise of the Black Watch snipers / David O'Keefe.

O'Keefe, David, 1967- (author.).

Summary:

"A riveting tour de force by Canada's leading military historian about the heroic Black Watch's fight for survival at Verrières Ridge Centred around one of Canada's most storied regiments, Seven Days in Hell tells the epic tale of the bloody battle for Verrières Ridge, a dramatic saga that unfolded just weeks after one of Canada's greatest military triumphs of the Second World War. O'Keefe takes us on a heart-pounding journey at the sharp end of combat during the infamous Normandy campaign, when more than 300 Black Watch Highlanders from across Canada, the United States, Great Britain and the Allied world found themselves embroiled in mortal combat against elite Waffen-SS units and grizzled Eastern Front veterans. Only a handful walked away. Pinned down as the result of strategic blunders and the fog of war, the men were thrust into a nightmare where station, rank, race and religion mattered little and only character won the day. Drawing on formerly classified documents and rare first-person testimony from the men who fought on the front lines, O'Keefe follows the footsteps of the ghosts of Normandy, giving a voice yet again to the men who sacrificed everything in the summer of 1944."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781443454797
ISBN: 1443454796
Physical Description: xvi, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Edition: Harper Perennial trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper Perennial, 2020.
Copyright: ©2019

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General Note:	Originally published: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2019.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-429) and index.