Terrible victory : First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary campaign, September 13-November 6, 1944 /

Mark Zuehlke is an expert at narrating the history of life on the battlefield for the Canadian army during World War II. In Terrible Victory, he provides a soldiers-eye-view account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland. Readers are there as soldiers fight in the muddy quagmire, endu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zuehlke, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 2008, ©2007.
Edición:1st paperback ed.
Temas:
Canada. > Canadian Army > History > World War, 1939-1945.
Canada. > Canadian Army
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Scheldt River Estuary (Netherlands and Belgium)
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Netherlands.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Belgium.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Escaut, Estuaire de l' (Pays-Bas et Belgique)
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Pays-Bas.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Belgique.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Military campaigns
Belgium
Europe > Scheldt River Estuary
Netherlands
History
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  • Introduction : a simple plan
  • Part one : the fall of dreams
  • 1 Beginning of the end
  • 2 The jewel
  • 3 The streetcar war
  • 4 A very heavy program
  • 5 Illusion of victory
  • 6 Poor devils
  • 7 Simonds takes command
  • Part two : the Cinderella days
  • 8 Off our backsides
  • 9 Close to the danger line
  • 10 A hard fight
  • 11 With devasting effect
  • 12 Did our best
  • 13 A hell of a way to go
  • 14 In the back door
  • Part three : tightening the ring
  • 15 Of first importance
  • 16 The toughest yet
  • 17 A godsend
  • 18 Black Friday
  • 19 Dominate the situation
  • 20 To the last cartridge
  • 21 Foot-slogging jobs
  • Part four : fight to the finish
  • 22 Troops on the ground
  • 23 The South Beveland race
  • 24 Let's take the damned place
  • 25 The damned causeway
  • 26 A fine performance
  • Epilogue : The Scheldt in memory
  • Appendix A : Canadians in the Scheldt : September 13
  • November 6, 1944
  • Appendix B : Canadian Infantry Battalion
  • Appendix C : Candadian and German Army order of ranks
  • Appendix D : The decorations.

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