Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting The Great War 1917-1918 Volume Two (Canadians Fighting, #2)

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 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.
  • ISBN10 0143055933
  • ISBN13 9780143055938
  • Publish Date 29 September 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Penguin Canada