Shock Troops
by Tim Cook
"Canadians Fighting The Great War 1917-1918 Volume Two"
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Shock Troops Book Details
War:
World War I
Perspective:
Infantry
Military Unit:
British Army
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Europe
Published Date:
2009
ISBN13:
9780143055938
Shock Troops Book Description
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.