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Autore |
Zuehlke Mark <1955-> |
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Titolo |
Terrible victory [[electronic resource] ] : First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign : September 13-November 6, 1944 / / Mark Zuehlke |
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Vancouver, B.C., : Douglas & McIntyre, c2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st pbk. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (859 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Netherlands |
World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Belgium |
Scheldt, Battle of the, 1944 |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 518-528) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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