Stopping the Panzers

Marc Milner is professor of history and Director of the Brigadier Milton F. Gregg, VC, Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick. He is best known for his books on naval history, including North Atlantic Run, The U-Boat Hunters, and Canada’s Navy: The First Century. His 2003 book Battle of the Atlantic won the C. P. Stacey Prize for the best book in military history in Canada. An article based on the material in Stopping the Panzers was awarded the 2010 Moncado Prize given by the Society of Military History for the best article in The Journal of Military History.

• List of mapsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. All Roads Lead to Courseulles2. Prelude to Battle3. The Assault, 6 June4. 9th Brigade Advances: The Morning of 7 June5. Death in the Afternoon: The 12th SS Attacks, 7 June6. According to Plan: The Advance of 7th Brigade, 7 June7. Putot, 8 June8. Bretteville and Cardonville, 8 June9. Norrey, 9-10 JuneConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

An excellent book. A fresh and exciting new take on the opening days of Operation Overlord by a leading Canadian scholar. Milner not only rescues the Canadian army from the obscurity that has enveloped it in most histories of the campaign, he places the Canadians right at the heart of the Overlord narrative, where Allied planners intended them to be: in the center of the line; astride the most vulnerable terrain; and armed, trained, and equipped to shoot up the inevitable German counterattack. As Milner shows in this deeply researched and gripping narrative, that was precisely what they did."" - Robert M. Citino, author of The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943""An extraordinarily detailed account of the vital Canadian contributions to the Allied landings in Normandy, Milner’s work completely revises our understanding of the role of Canadian forces in taking and holding a crucial segment of the landing area against repeated counterattacks by German panzer divisions. . . . A masterpiece of historical scholarship from one of the most authoritative voices in Canadian military history."" - Peter Mansoor, author of The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941–1945""An impressive book that tells a compelling story. Among its many strengths are the broad, deep documentation of both sides of the fight; the gift for combat narrative; and the author’s intimate familiarity with the ground on which the battle was fought. It adds greatly to our understanding of the Allies’Normandy campaign."" - Harold R. Winton, author of Corps Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes