D-Day to Carpiquet
Subtitle: The North Shore Regiment and the Liberation of Europe (New Brunswick Military Heritage Series)
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions & New Brunswick Military History Project; Goose Lane Editions
Published: May 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780864924896
Subjects: Military - World War II; History / Military / World War II; Military - Canada; Modern - 20th Century; History; History - Military / War; Military
Description: "On the morning of July 4, 1944, the 1st Battalion of the North Shore Regiment moved into position just west of the French village of Carpiquet, its ranks filled with farmers, fishermen, woods workers, and mill hands. Most of the men had been in the first wave that stormed the Normandy beaches a month earlier and were already battle-hardened veterans, but nothing could have prepared them for what was to come. In five long days, Carpiquet became the graveyard of the Regiment. Almost 200 men were killed or wounded, and the fighting strength of the Battalion's rifle companies was gutted." "D-Day to Carpiquet tells the story of the D-Day landing and the ferocious battles that followed. Using extensive new research and interviews with veterans, this unique account reveals the significance of the Regiment's accomplishments in the first stage of the Normandy campaign."--BOOK JACKET.