BREAKOUT FROM JUNO. FIRST CANADIAN ARMY AND THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN, JULY 4-AUGUST 21, 1944

Vancouver:Douglas & McIntyre. (2012). 1st edition. 510pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good clean copy inside and out with a very good, not price clipped, dust jacket (with an old price sticker to lower edge middle of rear panel).  *" July 4, 1944. Since storming ashore on D-Day, June 6, the allied invasion force had become dealocked in Normandy. Wrapped around a narrow front held by the Canadian, British and American troops was a band of steel composed of crack German divisions. Nowhere was this band stronger than in the Canadian-British sector facing the city of Caen. Six elite army and ss armoured divisions waited behind formidable defences. Yet a breakout here was vital--necessary to lock these divisions in battle and prevent their rushing to block the planned American punch through weaker divisions into the heart of France."...dj