The Victory Campaign The Operations in Northwest Europe, 1944-45


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Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War Volume III THE VICTORY CAMPAIGN The Operations in North-West Europe 1944-1945 NOTE In the writing of this volume the author has been given full. [...] THE GERMANS IN FRANCE, 1940-1944 The Creation of the Atlantic Wall. [...] CLEARING THE COASTAL BELT AND THE PORTS, SEPTEMBER 1944 The Advance Beyond the Somme. [...] THE AFTERMATH OF THE GERMAN SURRENDER Implementing the Surrender. [...] The first stage of the Historical Section's work on the Second World War was represented by the three booklets published in 1945-46 under the series title The Canadian Army at War.



















Terrible Victory


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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.