HOLDING JUNO. Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944

Vancouver:Douglas & McIntyre. (2005). 1st edition. 423pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good clean copy inside and out, with a very good, slightly soiled dust jacket.  *" The successful Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944--D-Day-- was only the beginning of the story. Having won the beaches, the thin line of soldiers holding the front, just a few miles inland from the sand, began the following day to expand the Allied toehold, and immediately faced fierce counterattacks by German forces desperate to repel the invasion. Nowhere was the ensuing six-day battle more ruthlessly waged than in front of Juno Beach, where 3rd Canadian Infantry Division squared off against the infamous 12th ss (Hitlerjugend) Panzer Division.."...dj