Seven Days in Hell
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Seven Days in Hell

Canada's Battle for Normandy and the Rise of the Black Watch Snipers

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Seven Days in Hell

Canada's Battle for Normandy and the Rise of the Black Watch Snipers

About this book

A riveting tour de force by Canada’s leading military historian about the heroic Black Watch’s fight for survival at Verrières Ridge

Centred around one of Canada’s most storied regiments, Seven Days in Hell tells the epic tale of the bloody battle for Verrières Ridge, a dramatic saga that unfolded just weeks after one of Canada’s greatest military triumphs of the Second World War. O’Keefe takes us on a heart-pounding journey at the sharp end of combat during the infamous Normandy campaign, when more than 300 Black Watch Highlanders from across Canada, the United States, Great Britain and the Allied world found themselves embroiled in mortal combat against elite Waffen-SS units and grizzled Eastern Front veterans. Only a handful walked away. Pinned down as the result of strategic blunders and the fog of war, the men were thrust into a nightmare where station, rank, race and religion mattered little and only character won the day. Drawing on formerly classified documents and rare first-person testimony from the men who fought on the front lines, O’Keefe follows the footsteps of the ghosts of Normandy, giving a voice yet again to the men who sacrificed everything in the summer of 1944.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Maps
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. La Voie Sacrée
  9. 2. Albatross
  10. 3. Inoculation
  11. 4. Bounce the Orne
  12. 5. Ifs
  13. 6. Hill 61
  14. 7. Maestro
  15. 8. The Four Horsemen, Act I: St. Martin
  16. 9. The Four Horsemen, Act II: The Ridge
  17. 10. The Four Horsemen, Act III: Der Hexenkessel (The Witch’s Cauldron)
  18. 11. Odds and Sods
  19. 12. The Abacus War
  20. Epilogue: The Bitter Harvest
  21. Acknowledgements
  22. Endnotes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. Photo Section
  26. About the Author
  27. Also by David O’Keefe
  28. Copyright
  29. About the Publisher