Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918: 2 - Hardcover

Cook, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670067350 ISBN 13: 9780670067350

Verlag: Penguin Group Canada, 2008

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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 2 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.

Biografía del autor

TIM COOK is the Great War historian at the Canadian War Museum, as well as an adjunct professor at Carleton University. His books have won numerous awards, including the 2008 J.W. Dafoe Prize forAt the Sharp End and the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction forShock Troops. In 2013, he received the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history. He lives in Ottawa with his family.

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• Verlag: Penguin Group Canada
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0670067350
• ISBN 13: 9780670067350
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 727