Book, Hold The Oak Line, Histoire illustrée de la 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade

Book, Hold The Oak Line, histoire illustrée de la 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade, by Frédérick Jeanne. 

Superb illustrated history of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade -- training, D-Day, counterattack of the Hitlerjugend.

Compared to other operations (Epsom, Windsor, Charnwood, Goodwood), these post-D-Day confrontations are not easy to read. The infantry battalions of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, after having been heavily tested on the beaches, quickly settled on their initial objectives of June 6, the Oak Line, materialized by the Caen-Bayeux railroad line, while two German divisions, the 12. ᛋᛋ-Panzergrenadier-Division „Hitlerjugend“ and the Panzer-Lehr-Division, greatly delayed by the Allied air forces, reached the front line.

These units threw themselves into the battle immediately, in almost total confusion and without any knowledge of the forces involved. The 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade held the westernmost part of the Canadian front, at the hinge of the front of the 50th British Division, which had landed on Gold Beach. The front line was very loose, and the roads and sectors controlled not completely secure. The Germans wanted to throw the Allies back to the sea, and the Canadians had to hold the Oak Line.

French text.

Hardcover, 496 pages.