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Shock Troops, Volume Two: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918 |
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| Format | Hardcover | |
| Catalogue No. | 978-0-670-06735-0 | |
| Pages | 727 | |
| Language | English only | |
| Price | $40.00 | |
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Written by Tim Cook. Published by Viking Canada, 2008. Description: |
| The second book in a groundbreaking two-volume set, Shock
Troops is the most comprehensive and authoritative history of Canadian
soldiers in the Great War in more than forty years. Taking up where At the Sharp End left off, Shock Troops follows the Canadian soldiers through the final two years of World War One, 1917 and 1918. Using previously unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs, and official documents from archives around the world, the author captures the experience of battle through the eyes of the combatants. Author Tim Cook chronicles the major battles fought by the Canadian Corps - Vimy, Hill 70, Passchendaele and the Hundred Days - bloody engagements where the Canadian troops established their reputation. By war's end, Canada's land army was regarded as an elite formation by its allies - and its enemies. Ninety years on, the Great War still haunts us. Memorials across the country honour the 60,000 Canadians killed; symbols like Remembrance Day and the poppy still resonate with Canadians. This two-volume set, based on a decade of research by one of the country's leading military historians, is a powerful tribute to those ordinary Canadians who faced the extraordinary and delivered victory on the Western Front. Also from Tim Cook: At the Sharp End, Volume One: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916 |
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