ORTONA. CANADA'S EPIC WORLD WAR II BATTLE

(Toronto, Canada):Stoddart Publishing Co., Ltd. (1999). (xx)+443pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good clean copy inside and out with a very good, not price clipped, dust jacket.  *" In one blood-soaked, furious week of fighting, from December 20 to December 27, 1943, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division took the town of Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port town at all costs.  Infantrymen serving in the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and the Seaforth Highlanders, supported by tankers of the Three Rivers Regiment, moved from house to house in hand-to-hand combat amid heavy shelling and wrested the town from the grip of the fierce German defenders."...dj