Shock troops: Canadians fighting the Great War, 1917-1918 (Canadians Fighting Ser.)
War and military biography, Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, War, World War I
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the 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, and based on newly uncovered sources. The Canadian… fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire. Companion to "At the sharp end" (DC32639). Some descriptions of sex and descriptions of violence. 2009.