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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Through Blood and Sweat: A Remembrance Trek Across Sicily's World War II Battlegrounds

Through Blood and Sweat: A Remembrance Trek Across Sicily's World War II Battlegrounds

Zuehlke, Mark

Hardcover

Armed ForcesItalian HistoryWorld War II

Publisher Price: $36.95

ISBN10: 1771620099
ISBN13: 9781771620093
Publisher: Douglas & Mcintyre Ltd
Published: May 10 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
As part of Operation Husky 2013, a group of Canadians walked this route to honour the memory of the nation's soldiers who fought in Sicily seventy years earlier and whose sacrifice has been largely forgotten. Under a searing sun, with Mount Etna's soaring heights always in the distance, a small contingent of marchers trekked each day along winding country roads for between 15 and 35 kilometres to reach the outskirts of a small town or village. Here they were joined by a pipe band, which led them to the skirl of bagpipes in a parade into the community's heart to be met by hundreds of cheering and applauding Sicilians. Before each community's war memorial a service of remembrance for both the Canadian and Sicilian war dead followed. Each day also brought the marchers closer to their final destination--Agira Canadian War Cemetery where 490 of the 562 Canadian soldiers who fell during the course of Operation Husky in 1943 are buried. On July 30--after twenty gruelling days--the marchers were joined here by almost a thousand Canadians and Italians. All joined to conduct a profoundly emotional ceremony of remembrance that ended with one person standing before each headstone and answering the roll call on that soldier's behalf. Mark Zuehlke, author of the award-winning Canadian Battle Series, was one of the Operation Husky 2013 marchers. He uses this arduous and poignant task as a focal point for a contemplative look at the culture of remembrance and the experience of war.

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