The Canadian Battlefields in Normandy: A Visitor’s Guide

by Terry Copp, Michael Bechthold

A revised edition of the bestselling guidebook by one of Canada’s foremost military historians brings the Normandy campaign to life with never-before-seen full-colour photographs. Revised full-colour maps and updated text transport the reader back to the summer of 1944. This guide is essential reading for any Canadian who is contemplating a trip to France. Published by the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies and distributed by Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2008

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book for the one who wants to know more about the fighting of the Canadian forces during Normandy Campaign (from Juno to Falaise gap). You have the historical facts, then the author sets up like a tour you can follow on your one to see the different monuments. There are great maps and photographs.

[spike marlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very good book and now I want to go to Normandy again with this book in hand and follow the battles. Mr. Copp has combined a short, but detailed synopsis of each part of the Canadian’s role in the Normandy Campaign from the landings on June 6 to closing of the Falaise Pocket on August 21. This is one of the only books I have read that talks about the role of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during the initial drops on June 6. It goes through the Battles around Capiquet and Caen, and operations Windsor, Charnwood, Goodwood, Atlantic, Spring, Totalize, and Tractable. At the end of each chapter there is a section on where to go to see memorials, battlefields, and cemeteries. A great book to have while visiting Normandy.