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Vimy Ridge, Battle of (France : 1917)

  • Vimy
    Author:
    Berton, Pierre
    Summary:

    Drawing on unpublished personal accounts and interviews, Berton brings home what it was like for the young men, some no more than sixteen years old, who clawed their way up the sodden, shell-torn slopes in a struggle they innocently...
  • Vimy
    Author:
    Thiessen, Vern
    Summary:

    France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they'll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova...
  • Victory at Vimy : Canada comes of age, April 9-12, 1917
    Author:
    Barris, Theodore
    Summary:

    On Easter Monday April 9, 1917, 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 behind a well-...
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