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Vimy

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Description

On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing of their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the most efficient-defended German bastion at the Western Front – the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had failed to take the Ridge, and so had the French who had lost 150,000 men within the attempt. Yet these magnificent colonial troops did so in a morning at the price of only 10,000 casualties.

The creator recounts this remarkable feat of arms with both pace and style. He has gathered many personal accounts from soldiers who fought at Vimy. He describes the commanders and the men, the organization and the training, and above all notes the thorough preparation for the attack from which the British General Workforce could have learnt much. The action is placed inside the context either one of the Battle of Arras, of which this attack was once part, and as a milestone within the development of Canada as a nation.


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