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I have had personal conversations with a member of the Canadian forces who was in Normandy. Here are a few of the stories that he told me: "When you were on recce you would just lay there and watch. Sometimes you'd just watch for hours. Say you were watching a house. Whenever you saw someone...

My highest recommendation would be "A Rising Of Courage" by Dan Hartigan. It is about Canada's Paratroops in the Liberation of Normandy...and that's actually the subtitle but the best description of the book in a one-liner. It is a book that I really couldn't put down. I finished it while...