The epic story of the average soldier -- with little or no military training prior to the outbreak of World War II -- following the gruelling, twisting path towards the prize of Rome. Personal interviews with surviving veterans bring to life the slugging match fought street by street and house by house among the boobytrapped ruins of Ortona. A detailed account of the classic soldier's fight -- a slugging match fought out by platoons, squads, and even individual soldiers. Ortona's shattered buildings and twenty days of ...
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The epic story of the average soldier -- with little or no military training prior to the outbreak of World War II -- following the gruelling, twisting path towards the prize of Rome. Personal interviews with surviving veterans bring to life the slugging match fought street by street and house by house among the boobytrapped ruins of Ortona. A detailed account of the classic soldier's fight -- a slugging match fought out by platoons, squads, and even individual soldiers. Ortona's shattered buildings and twenty days of relentless close-quarter combat are brought to life with personal interviews from the surviving veterans of this epic set-piece battle. Ortona fell during the most intense fighting ever engaged in by Allied forces in World War II.
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Add this copy of Ortona to cart. $12.40, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Stoddart.
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Hardcover. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Ink stamp at bottom of front free endpaper. A tight, clean and otherwise unmarked copy. 443pp. Illustrations, maps.
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Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 0773731989. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, gift inscription on FFEP.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W photos and maps; 9.3 X 5.8 X 1.8 inches; 443 pages; "In one blood-soaked, furious week of fighting, from December 20 to December 27, 1943, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division took the town of Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port town at all costs. Infantrymen serving in the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and the Seaforth Highlanders, supported by tankers of the Three Rivers Regiment, moved from house to house in hand-to-hand combat amid heavy shelling and wrested the town from the grip of the fierce German defenders. Getting into Ortona had been a battle of its own. Ortona, the pearl of the Adriatic, stands on a promontory impregnable from three sides, with seacliffs on the north and east, and a deep ravine on the west. The Canadian infantrymen, drawn from virtually every corner of Canada, attacked from the south under the command of Major-General Chris Vokes, fighting across narrow gullies, mud-choked vineyards and olive groves, into the narrow streets of Ortona itself. When the vicious battle was over, 2605 Canadians were dead or wounded. But the town that had become known as "Little Stalingrad" was now in Allied hands."
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0773731989. Stiff unmarked book in glossy dust jacket; about new.; Canadian Battle Series; 6.75 X 1.75 X 9.75 inches; 443 pages.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0773731989. As New. Gift-giving condition. Tight, clean and crisp. An excellent copy now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. As New.; 9.30 X 5.80 X 1.80 inches; 443 pages.
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