The Liri Valley by Mark Zuehlke

The Liri Valley by Mark Zuehlke

The second instalment in military historian Mark Zuehlke's compelling World War I tales of Canadians overcoming insurmountable odds in Italy.

For the allied armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944, Rome was the prize that could only be won through one of the greatest offensives of the war. Following upon his book about the battle of Ortona, Mark Zuehlke returns to the Mediterranean theatre of World War I with this gripping tribute to the valiant Canadians who opened the way for the Allies to take Rome.

The Liri Valley is testament to the bravery of these Canadians, like the badly wounded Captain Pierre Potvin, who survived more than thirty hours alone in the hell of no man's land. This book, like the battle it records, will live long in readers' memories.

Mark Zuehlke has been hailed by Jack Granatstein as Canada's most popular military historian. Of his twenty books, nine have been works of military history. For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace won the Canadian Authors Association 2007 Lela Common Award for Canadian History. In 2006, Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches, June7-12, 1944 was awarded the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.

Also a novelist, Zuehlke is known for the acclaimed Elias McCann mystery series, which chronicles the misadventures of a coroner in British Columbia's Tofino. Hands Like Clouds garnered a Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Best First Novel award in 2000, and Sweep Lotus was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Best Novel in 2004. Zuehlke lives in Victoria, BC. He can be found on the web at www.zuehlke.ca.

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ISBN 13	9781771622837
ISBN 10	1771622830
Title	The Liri Valley
Author	Mark Zuehlke
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
Year published	2020-09-30
Number of pages	530
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