About this title: One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of fighting: they had seized the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front.
How could an army of civilians from a nation with no military tradition secure the first enduring victory in thirty-two months of warfare with only 10,000 casualties, when the French had lost 150,000 men in their unsuccessful ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780385658423ISBN:0385658427
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Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780771013393ISBN:0771013396
Description: Good+ in Fair jacket. Spine lean, a couple of pages have open tears to the top edge from a metal object being used as a bookmark, heavy edgewear to the jacket, top part of jacket is dampstained, small split to top edge of front panel, jacket is price clipped, and other moderate to heavy shopwear. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140104394ISBN:0140104399
Description: Acceptable. A usable copy. Please note that this book will show signs of wear and will have been extensively read but all pages will be in tact with it's binding secure unless stated. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780771013393ISBN:0771013396
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pen & Sword
Date Published: 2003-01-01
ISBN-13:9780850529883ISBN:0850529883
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"The military leaders in every other army should have been tried as war criminals at the end of WWI. Their total lack of concern for their soldiers resulted in mass murder on both sides. This book was able to capture the mud, rats, and trench warfare aspects in mind-numbing detail. Americans always seems to think they win all wars by themselves, it is refreshing to see that the Canadians were way ahead of the game played by the rest of the armies during this great war to "end all wars." I'm glad I read it, but it is not for the faint of heart. Lots of maps, which I always love, but would have like some pictures to go along with the character development. I would have given it four stars, but the author spent too much time on his own thoughts instead of just telling it through the massive interviews and research that he conducted in his creation of this book."
"Vimy Ridge in north France is owned by the government of Canada. Canada's gleaming white, towering memorial to its dead of World War I is the stunning feature of Vimy today. Vimy Ridge, not a soaring height, was taken and entrenched by German soldiers in the first month of World War I - August, 1914. It remained a part of the German entrenchments until the day after Easter, April 9, 1917. That Easter Monday morning at Vimy began with a barrage by 983 artillery pieces and 150 machine guns. This was an action by the Canadian Corps. It was the first significant action undertaken by the Canadians alone. It became both their proudest and most flesh-rending hour. Surprisingly - 1914/1917 - this was the first significant victory by forces under the British umbrella in the conflict. The story of the Canadians is a unique story. It is WWI trench warfare with a Canadian perspective, with Canadian twists. Berton tells the story of his fellow Canadians and of all the that came to be with brisk, moving prose. One might stand on that ridge today and ask, "What's the big deal? What did all the death and carnage at this place gain? So what if Germans had trenches here?" Don't ask these questions. They diminish the Canadians' valor, and those regiments from Canada were valorous indeed in that terrible action on Vimy Ridge."
"Pierre Berton certainly had a way of making history engaging. By giving a detailed account of the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, often through the eyes of individuals, the reader feels immersed in this event that brought all the Canadian troops together and helped to forge a nation."
"Drawn from unpublished personal accounts and interviews, Berton tells the experience of four Canadian divisions in the battle of Vimy. How an army of civilians played a pivotal role in the events that transpired.
When the Germans heard the Canadians were coming, they quailed. Civilians they may have been, but these were frontiersmen - tough, inexhaustible, independent and dead shots."
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