THE GOTHIC LINE. CANADA'S MONTH OF HELL IN WORLD WAR II ITALY

Vancouver/Toronto:Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd. (2003). 1st edition, with full number line. 551pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good clean copy inside and out with a very good, lightly shelfworn, dust jacket.  *"For four dreadful weeks under Italy's late summer sun, the soldiers of the 1st Canadian Armoured divisions struggled against the Gothic Line - a vast network of fortifications spanning the width of the nation and braced against the hard spine of the Apennines.  Their task was to puncture the line where it bordered the Adriatic coast to the south of Rimini. Deceptively straightforward on paper, this plan had the Canadians enter a battlefield covered by thousands of machine-gun and anti-tank gun positions and pillboxes expertly sited behind deeply laid minefields and dense thickets of barbed wire. "...dj