Mark Zuehlke: 14 books
Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons
British Remittance Men in the Canadian West
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Remittance man’ was meant to be a disparaging term. It reflected the fact that these young men had been sent to the colonies to spare their families continuing embarrassment or shame. At home they had been scoundrels, dreamers, and second sons without future prospects. Perhaps in
the Canadian...
Tragedy at Dieppe
Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's tenth Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo," Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just...
On to Victory
The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation.
The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles...
For Honour's Sake
The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canada’s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this country’s premier military historians.
In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was...
by Mark Zuehlke
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Dawn, June 6, 1944. Off the Normandy coast 6,500 ships carry 150,000 Allied troops. This is D-Day, the long-awaited Allied invasion of German-occupied Europe. The Allies will storm five beaches. One is code-named Juno Beach. Here, 14,500 Canadians will land on a five-mile stretch of sand backed by...
Brave Battalion
The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Focusing on the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) Battalion, Mark...
The Juno Beach Trilogy
First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, June 6th - August 21, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Together in one convenient ebook, three of Mark Zuehlke's epics of Canadian soldiers in World War II take us from the dramatic events of D-Day (June 6, 1944) to the days following, and the final push. Juno Beach, Holding Juno and Breakout from Juno focus on the Normandy Invasion and its aftermath.
Juno...
Holding Juno
Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland - the deepest...
Terrible Victory
First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Mark Zuehlke is an expert at narrating the history of life on the battlefield for the Canadian army during World War II. In Terrible Victory, he provides a soldiers-eye-view account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland. Readers are there as soldiers fight in the muddy quagmire, enduring...
Through Blood and Sweat
A Remembrance Trek Across Sicily's World War II Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
As part of Operation Husky 2013, a group of Canadians walked this route to honour the memory of the nation’s soldiers who fought in Sicily seventy years earlier and whose sacrifice has been largely forgotten. Under a searing sun, with Mount Etna’s soaring heights always in the distance, a small...
by Mark Zuehlke
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses,...
Breakout From Juno
First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings.
On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent...
Operation Husky
The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10-August 7, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
On July 10, 1943, two great Allied armadas of over 2,000 ships readied to invade Sicily. This was Operation Husky, the first step toward winning a toehold in fascist-occupied Europe. Among the invaders were 20,000 Canadian troops serving in the First Canadian Infantry Division and First Canadian Tank...
by Mark Zuehlke
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The story begins in 1864 and for a second time follows the Loxleys, a Canadian family living in the Niagara peninsula. Under the threat once more of an American invasion and the cancellation of the Canadian-American Reciprocity Treaty, the Canadian Colonies look to unite. We follow the...