The Valour and the Horror

Using maps from the Official Canadian History of the Second World War, you can trace the struggle from Juno beach to the end in Argentan.

Jacques Dextraze would one day become the Major-General commanding all the Canadian forces; but in Normandy, he was a 24-year-old major. His and others' stories are told...

From D-Day on June 6 to the defeat of the German Army in the Normandy in the last days of August, you can follow the events day by day...

The Canadians looked smart on the British parade grounds, but as the Allies fought their way through Normandy, Canada was running out of fighting men. Issues, whether from the fields of Normandy or the halls of Ottawa, still command our attention...

All manner of information fills in the background of the story.

What fearsome engines of destruction thundered in battle.

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