Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting The Great War 1917-1918 Volume Two
by Tim Cook
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Highly recommended. One of the best accounts from the Canadian side in the Great War.
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Tim Cook is a military historian at the Canadian War Museum. His books have won numerous awards, including the 2008 J.W. Dafoe Prize for At the Sharp End and the 2009 RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction for Shock Troops. In. 2013, he received the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history and he is a member of the Order of Canada. show more He lives in Ottawa. show less
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- 2008
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- Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France; Amiens, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France; Passchendaele, West Flanders, Belgium; Vimy Ridge, Hauts-de-France, France; Belgium; Canada (show all 7); France
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- World War I (1914 | 1918); Battle of Vimy Ridge
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