Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917

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At the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line in the back of a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire. By nightfall, the Germans had suffered a major setback. The Ridge, which other Allied troops had assaulted in the past and failed to take, was once firmly in Canadian hands. The Canadian Corps had achieved in all probability the greatest lightning strike in Canadian military history. One Paris newspaper known as it “Canada’s Easter gift to France.”

Of the 40,000 Canadians who fought at Vimy, nearly 10,000 became casualties. Many of their names are engraved at the famous monument that now stands at the ridge to commemorate the battle. It was once the first time Canadians had fought as a distinct national army, and in many ways, it was once a coming of age for the nation.

The achievement of the Canadians on those April days in 1917 has transform one among our lasting myths. In accordance with first-hand accounts, including archival photographs and maps, it’s the voices of the soldiers who experienced the battle that comprise the thrust of the book. Like JUNO: Canadians at D-Day, Ted Barris paints a compelling and surprising human picture of what it was once like to have stormed and taken Vimy Ridge.

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