Shock troops : Canadians fighting the Great War, 1917-1918
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- ISBN: 0670067350
- ISBN: 9780670067350
- Physical Description viii, 727 pages : illustrations, maps
- Publisher Toronto : Penguin Group (Canada), 2008.
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General Note: | Winner of the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Sequel to: At the sharp end : Canadians fighting the Great War, 1914-1916. "Volume Two". "Viking Canada". |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references [pages 649-712), Internet addresses and index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 40.00 |
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Shock Troops : Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918
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Shock Troops : Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918
Shock Troops follows the Canadian fighting forces during the titanic battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign. Through the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches on the Western Front, and based on newly uncovered Canadian, British, and German archival sources, Cook builds on Volume I of his national bestseller, At the Sharp End . The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price in the killing fields of the Great War, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire.