Canadians on the Somme, 1916
The Neglected Campaign
Ordered lines of heavily laden soldiers with rifles at ¿high port¿ trudging through mud against uncut barbed wire under heavy machine gun fire is the enduring view of the Somme 1916. What makes Canada¿s Somme campaign so difficult to characterise was at times this was true, but so were times Canadians advanced at speed over dry ground through smashed German defences. Over the course of 80 days, they encountered all types of weather, ground conditions, defences, and defenders. They achieved stirring victories, and suffered staggering defeats. Thus, Canada¿s Somme experience was not a simple binary of either victory or defeat, but both and most…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-911512-95-0
- EAN: 9781911512950
- Produktnummer: 22497644
- Verlag: Helion & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H25.9 cm x B18.3 cm x D3.0 cm 1'306 g
- Abbildungen: 77 b/w pictures, 6 b/w diags, 32 colour maps, 12 tables
- Gewicht: 1306
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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