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Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 912, 1917
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At the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a sixkilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a wellrehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire. By nightfall, the Germans had suffered a major setback. The Ridge, which other Allied troops had assaulted previously and failed to take, was firmly in Canadian hands. The Canadian Corps had achieved perhaps the greatest lightning strike in Canadian military history. One Paris newspaper called it Canadas Easter gift to France.Of the 40,000 Canadians who fought at Vimy, nearly 10,000 became casualties. Many of their names are engraved on the famous monument that now stands on the ridge to commemorate the battle. It was the first time Canadians had fought as a distinct national army, and in many ways, it was a coming of age for the nation.The achievement of the Canadians on those April days in 1917 has become one of our lasting myths. Based on firsthand accounts, including archival photographs and maps, it is the voices of the soldiers who experienced the battle that comprise the thrust of the book. Like JUNO: Canadians at DDay, Ted Barris paints a compelling and surprising human picture of what it was like to have stormed and taken Vimy Ridge.
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