| Description |
1 online resource (526 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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, enduring a battle that lasted three weeks and in which 6,000 soldiers perished. Terrible Victory is a powerful story of courage, survival, and skill |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-496) and index |
| Subject |
Canada. Canadian Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
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| SUBJECT |
Canada. Canadian Army fast |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Scheldt River Estuary (Netherlands and Belgium)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Netherlands.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Belgium.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Military campaigns
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Belgium
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Europe -- Scheldt River Estuary
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Netherlands
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781926685809 |
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1926685806 |
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9781553654049 |
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1553654048 |
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