"Ortona" Topic

"In one blood-soaked, furious week fo fighting, from December 20 to December 27, 1943, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division took 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. When the vicious battle was over, 2339 Canadians were dead or wounded. But the town that had become known as "Little Stalingrad" was now in Allied hands.

Ortona brings Canada's first major triumph of the war to life in a dramatic, suspenseful narrative, weaving reminiscences of the Canadians, Germans, and Italians who were there together with a blow-by-blow account of the fighting that raged in December 1943 from the Moro River Valley through the infamous Gully and finallly into the streets of Ortona itself. It is masterful work, a story told from the soldier's-eye view."
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Anyone has read this book?
If the answer is yes, comments please?

Thanks in advance for your guidance.

Amicalement
Armand

I've read it. Great book with all sorts of fascinating scenario ideas like all his books on the Canadians in WWII.

Ooh, looks interesting, I may have to add this to my Canadian Army library.

I also see he's down a follow up book Ortona Street Fight: link

Thanks for your guidance my friend.
Glad you enjoyed it my friend miniMo.

Amicalement
Armand

I have also read it. As well as several other Zuehlke books (Juno Beach, Holding Juno, Terrible Victory, etc). Highly recommended. Good mix of personal accounts with operational movements. I have created several skirmish scenarios based on Mark's books.

Mike

Thanks for your comments Mike!.

Amicalement
Armand

Read it; agree with the previous opinions.

MH