![]() ![]() ![]() USA postage usually $8.00 unless larger/heavier. Unpacked weight, 767g We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. It marks Vimy Ridge, far from home, as a decisive turning point in Canada's long march to nationhood'. 'Pierre Berton's finest book is more than a mighty epic of battle. Dust jacket is price clipped, has very light edgewear/wrinkling.Ĭloth. ![]() How could an army of civilians from a nation without a military tradition secure the first enduring Imperial victory in thirty-two months of warfare? The answer, as Pierre Berton makes vividly clear in his haunting account, was precisely that these men were civilians, with flexible minds unfettered by military rules." Minor wrinkling at top of spine. They went over the top at dawn by lunch time, most of the ridge was in their hands - at a cost of only ten thousand casualties. Nor did the Germans even the British were skeptical. The French, who had lost 150,000 men trying to take the ridge, didn't believe it could be done. They seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front - a muddy scarp known as the Vimy Ridge. "On a chill Easter Monday in 1917, with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France did what neither the British nor the French armies had been able to do in more than two years of fighting. ![]()
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