Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944
by Mark Zuehlke 
Canadian Battle Series (6)
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Mark Zuehlke is an expert at narrating the history of life on the battlefield for the Canadian army during World War II. In Terrible Victory, he provides a soldiers-eye-view account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland. Readers are there as soldiers fight in the muddy quagmire, enduring a battle that lasted three weeks and in which 6,000 soldiers perished. Terrible Victory is a powerful story of courage, survival, and skill.Tags
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A very interesting account of a campaign not really very well known either here or in Canada. A gripping and at times visceral accounts of the Canadian first armies attempts and ultimate success in clearing this part of the Netherlands following the D-Day landings. Highly recommended for anyone who has an interest in the second world war, Canadian history, And the Allied course and ultimate victory.
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Mark Zuehlke is Canada's Leading Writer of popular military history Holding Juno won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize in 2006. In 2014, Zuehlke won the prestigious Governor General's History Award for Popular Media, also known as the Pierre Berton Award. Zuehlke lives in Victoria, British Columbia, where he is at work on his next book in the show more Canadian Battle Series. show less
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- Important places
- Belgium; The Netherlands
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945); Battle of the Scheldt (1944)
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.5421 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- Military history of World War II Campaigns and battles by theatre European theatre
- LCC
- D756.5 .S34 .Z84 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War II (1939-1945)
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- English
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