Ortona: Canada’s Epic World War II Battle - Mark Zuehlke Audiobook
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A masterful retelling one of the major victories of Canadian troops over the German army’s elite division during WWII.
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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This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
January 7th, 2023
Apnea keeps saying that the Canadians consistently had to be rescued by the Americans, but I don’t think that’s a fair interpretation. Consequently, I won’t accept it.
January 8th, 2023
Thank you
March 9th, 2023
The Canadians punched way above their weight in both world wars & they liberated the Dutch while simultaneously saving them from starvation. Unlike the ungrateful Brits that Canada feed & delivered arms to at great risk in in both wars running the U-boat gauntlet in the Atlantic, the Dutch acknowledged the Canadians sacrifice & heroism by making one day every year, Liberation Day (May 5th), a national holiday in honour of their Canadian liberators.
Most Brits are so Americanized that they too act like they ‘won’ the war. They would have starved & been turned into a German province if not for Canada.
There are too many things to list but another thing Canadian Forces gave was they gave en entire generation of German soldiers PTSD.
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*The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers*
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“Modern Canadians cannot condemn the sometimes shocking behaviour of their WWI soldiers without knowing the stress of battle, historian Tim Cook says”
“It was a preview of coming developments. Canadian soldiers would emerge from the First World War with a reputation for winning victories that others could not. But even in a war of unparalleled ferocity, enemy and ally alike would remember the Canadians as having been particularly brutal.
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British war correspondent Philip Gibbs had a front row seat on four years of Western Front fighting. He would single out the Canadians as having been particularly obsessed with killing Germans, calling their war a kind of vendetta. “The Canadians fought the Germans with a long, enduring, terrible, skilful patience,” he wrote after the war.”
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war
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