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Three Days in Hell: 7-9 June 1944

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June 7, 1944. The Allies have landed in Normandy, where they have got set a bridgehead : yet this one is narrow and fragile. The Canadians sprint on to Carpiquet, but their attack is crushed by Panzers of the Hitlerjugend Division that have just rejoined the frontline. Canadians and Germans are going to fight every other violently, and the tension is at its highest – some Canadian soldiers are murdered in Buron, and at the Ardenne Abbey.

June 8, 1944. The Winnipegs are crushed by a German counter-attack in Putot. Some German soldiers are executed on Hill 102, and a few Canadian soldiers are executed in Audrieu and Le Mesnil-Patry. Who are the people liable for those actions ? For the first time, the mystery is partially unveiled. Then, the crazy night attack on Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse – some panzers will burn and light this terrible night.

June 9, 1944. The “Ribbentrop Company” attacks Norrey : seven Panther tanks are destroyed. The Hitlerjugend’s counterattack is stopped. In Norrey, this is “the twist of fate” : shrapnel wipe out numerous civilians. The acme of horror has been reached.

Thanks to numerous testimonies given by the combatants and the Norman civilians – who also suffered a lot all through the battle – this book offers a degree of precision never reached regarding the Battle of Normandy. The wartime and current pictures, the portraits of soldiers and civilians, the maps and the plans make this book a real movie of these “three days in hell” between Bayeux and Caen, even as the frontline used to be still not stabilized, even as the soldiers were trying to go from one enemy strongpoint to another, and even as the civilians did not know where the danger used to be…

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