Terrible victory : First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign : September 13-November 6, 1944 / / Mark Zuehlke
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| Autore: |
Zuehlke Mark <1955->
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| Titolo: |
Terrible victory : First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign : September 13-November 6, 1944 / / Mark Zuehlke
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| Pubblicazione: | Vancouver, B.C., : Douglas & McIntyre, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st pbk. ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (859 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 940.5421 |
| 973.7456 | |
| Soggetto topico: | World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Netherlands |
| World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Belgium | |
| Scheldt, Battle of the, 1944 | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 518-528) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Terrible victory |
| ISBN: | 1-926685-80-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826804003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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