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BOOK - Canadians Fighting The Great War 1914 to 1918 - TWO VOLUMES (1914-1916; 1916-1918)
By Tim Cook
Published by Viking Canada, Toronto, 2007
Canadians Fighting The Great War 1914 to 1918 is the first comprehensive history of Canadians in World War One in 40 years. It heralds a growing interest in World War One history in general, and Canadian contributions to the War in particular.
Highly acclaimed and comprehensive, featuring never-before-published photographs, letters, diaries, and maps, this recounting of the Great War through the soldiers’ eyewitness accounts is moving and thoroughly engrossing.
Volume One - At the Sharp End, 1914-1916 covers the harrowing early battles of World War One, when tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, died, before the generals and soldiers found ways to break the terrible stalemate of the front. It provides both an intimate look at the Canadian men in the trenches and an authoritative account of the slow evolution in tactics, weapons, and advancement.
597 pages
7 X 9"
Endnotes
Index
Illustrations (B & W)
Published by Viking Canada, Toronto, 2007
ISBN: 9780670067343 (softcover - perfectbound)
Volume Two - Shock Troops, 1916-1918 follows the Canadian forces during the titanic battles of Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign. Through the eyes of foot soldiers who fought and died in the trenches on the Western Front, and based on newly uncovered archival sources, this book builds on volume I of Tim Cook's national bestseller, At the Sharp End . The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final two 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.
500 pages
7 X 9"
Endnotes
Index
Illustrations (B & W)
Published by Viking Canada, Toronto, 2009
ISBN: 9780143055938 (softcover - perfectbound)
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