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Terrible victory : First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign : September 13-November 6, 1944 / Mark Zuehlke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zuehlke, Mark, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Belgium.
- Scheldt, Battle of the, 1944.
- Canada. Canadian Army--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (859 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver, B.C. : Douglas & McIntyre, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 518-528) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-926685-80-6
- OCLC:
- 696818966
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