OPERATION HUSKY. The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10--August 7,1943

Vancouver:Douglas & McIntyre. (2008). 1st edition. 491pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages edges lightly soiled but otherwise a very good, clean copy with a very good, clean dust jacket.  * "On July 10, 1943, twenty thousand Canadian soldiers joined two great Allied armies as they poured off the ships of the largest armanda in history onto the beaches of southern Sicily. This was Operation Husky--the first western Allied thrust to win a toehold inside Hitler's Fortress Europe.  Guarding the renowned Eighth Army's left flank, 1st Canadian Infantry Division and 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade struck out from the sand into the island's rugged interior. In searing heat, these untried troops clashed in ever-intensifying battle to wrest towering mountains and ancient hill towns away from the elite veterans of Germany's Hermann Goring and 1st Parachute divisions."...dj