Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Air War 13
Chapter 2 Evaders and Prisoners 31
Chapter 3 The Hitler Line 55
Chapter 4 Planning the Invasion 95
Chapter 5 D-Day 117
Chapter 6 A Battle for Survival 137
Chapter 7 Fighting on All Fronts 167
Chapter 8 Operation Spring 197
Chapter 9 War and Medicine 225
Chapter 10 The Drive to Falaise 243
Chapter 11 The Gothic Line 279
Chapter 12 The Long Left Flank 315
Chapter 13 Battle of the Scheldt 337
Chapter 14 Battering Germany 367
Chapter 15 Veterans 403
Chapter 16 The Second World War and Memory 431
Endnotes 467
Acknowledgments 521
Bibliography 523
Index 554
Credits 569
Maps
Breaking of the Hitler Line, May 11-23, 1944 80
Canadian Assaults on D-Day 123
The Canadian Front, June 7-8, 1944 141
The Capture of Caen, July 8-9, 1944 182
Attack South of Caen, July 18-21, 1944 210
Verrières Ridge, July 25, 1944 218
Operation Totalize, August 7-10, 1944 251
The Breaking of the Gothic Line, August 30-September 3, 1944 289
Capture of Boulogne, September 17-22, 1944 326
Scheldt, October-November 1944 339
The Rhineland, February 8-21, 1945 380
Operation Blockbuster 390
