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"Well-written and appealing, Holding Juno doesn't shy away from the realities and horrors of war." (Winnipeg Free Press 20060518)
"Zuehlke has emerged as Canada's pre-eminent writer of popular history. Holding Juno, the follow up to Juno Beach, only confirms that accolade." (Quill & Quire )
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Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings.
D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inlandóthe deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history. But for all the horror endured on June 6 every soldier knew the worst was yet to come.
The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle between a Canadian division determined to widen its hold on the beachhead and an equally determined foe intent on eliminating Juno Beach was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself. Although battered and bloody, the Canadians had held their ground and made it possible for the slow advance toward Germany and eventual Allied victory to begin.
Holding Juno recreates this pivotal battle and the ultimate triumph of Canadian arms through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it, with the same dramatic intensity and factual detail that made Juno Beach, in the words of Quill & Quire reviewer Michael Clark, "the defining popular history of Canada's D-Day battle."
(20060518)THE STORM THAT LASHED Juno Beach during the early morning assault landings, churning the grey sea into an icy cauldron, gradually eased during the long afternoon of D-Day. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Calling All Canadians,
By Geoff Warren (British Columbia, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Holding Juno (Paperback)
Like Zuehlke's "Juno", "Holding Juno" follows the men of the Canadian military during their first week after landing on D-Day.For any Canadian wanting to know what a relative who may have landed on D-Day and survived (or not) did during his first week ashore in Normandy, this is the book that will tell you. There's the necessary military jargon and dry historical material included in the book (but kept to a minimum compared to other authors on the subject), but intertwined are the stories of the men who were there. Mr. Zuehlke's research and interviews of the veterans help the book to read very easily and, while not a novel, not a history book either. I've just finished "Juno", am 1/2 way through "Holding Juno", and cannot thank the author enough for what he has done in these two books. I have a family connection to Juno Beach/Normandy and through reading Mr. Z's two books, have learned more about what happened on the ground than I have through previoulsy reading a small library of other books on the subject. My only regret is that his third book in the trilogy, apparently to cover the taking of Caen and the closing of the Falaise gap, will not be out until the Fall of 2011. Even if one has no family connection to the Juno Beach "story", this book and Mr. Z's "Juno" will clear up many, many misconceptions concerning the supposed "lacklustre" participation, performance and contribution of the brave Canadian volunteers who fought and died in Normandy so many years ago. Bravo Mr. Zuehlke and the veterans who were there.
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Although belated this is the best historical analysis of the much ignored Candian Forces contributions in life and limb to the Normandy invasion and further liberation of Western Europe.It is not a story aclaiming heroics but a thoughtful analysis of viewpoints and decision making at all levels that culminate in atrocious sacrifice of the ordinary fighting man-excluding 98% of generals!
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