Book six in the Canadian Battle Series, Terrible Victory, is a gripping account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland, one of our finest, and most costly, military victories.
On September 4, 1944, Antwerp, Europe's largest port, fell to the Second British Army and it seemed the war would soon be won. But Antwerp was of little value unless the West Scheldt Estuary linking it to the North Sea was also in Allied hands. In his greatest blunder of the war, Field Marshal Montgomery turned his back on the port, leaving the First Canadian Army to fight its way up the long coastal flank.
By the time the Canadians and others serving with them reached the area, it had been transformed into a fortress manned by troops ordered to fight to the death. Crushing the Nazi defenders required all of the Canadians' courage, endurance and skill. The battle that raged until November was Canada's bloodiest of World War II, costing more than 6,000 casualties.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 518-528) and index
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- CaOOCEL
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- 940.54/21
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781926685809 9781553654049
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- D756.5 S34
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- Z84 2008eb
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- 1 electronic text (545 p., [16] p. of plates)
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Table of Contents
- Holding Juno Canadas Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches June 712 1944 5
- Juno Beach Canadas D-Day Victory June 6 1944 5
- The Gothic Line Canadas Month of Hell in World War Italy 5
- The Liri Valley Canadas World War Breakthrough to Rome 5
- Ortona Canadas Epic World War Battle 5
- The Canadian Military Atlas Four Centuries of Conflict from New France to Kosovo 5
- The Gallant Cause Canadians in the Spanish Civil War 19361939 5
- For Honours Sake The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace 5
- War is a crime. Ask the infantry ask the dead. 7
- To most soldiers who fought from the beaches through to Germany 7
- That Scheldt was hell on earth. 7
- 1 4 6 9
- 31 43 58 71 85 101 120 9
- 137 9
- 139 155 188 221 235 9
- 251 9
- 253 270 288 301 9
- 316 335 351 10
- 369 10
- 371 390 407 427 442 10
- 461 10
- 467 472 473 475 10
- 477 518 529 541 10
- Juno Beach Holding Juno Tug of War 11
- The Victory Campaign Terrible Victory 12
- Perspectives. 14
- Slagveld Sloedam 15
- A Simple Plan 22
- The FAll oF DreAmS 39
- Beginning of the end 41
- The Jewel 53
- The Streetcar War 68
- Our real objective therefore is the Ruhr 71
- A Very heavy Program 81
- Illusion of Victory 95
- Warspite. 98
- Warspite 101
- Poor Devils 111
- Simonds Takes Command 130
- The CInDerellA DAyS 147
- Close to the Danger line 165
- Daily Herald Herald Daily Express Express 170
- A hard Fight 181
- With Devastating effect 198
- Did our Best 214
- A hell of a Way to Go 231
- 1 4 245
- In the Back Door 245
- TIGhTenInG The rInG 261
- The Toughest yet 280
- 1 7 298
- A Godsend 298
- Black Friday 311
- We Die at Dawn 319
- Dominate the Situation 326
- To the last Cartridge 345
- Foot-Slogging Jobs 361
- FIGhT To The FInISh 379
- Troops on the Ground 381
- The South Beveland race 400
- 2 4 417
- The Damned Causeway 437
- A Fine Performance 452
- Warspite Erebus Roberts. Warspite 455
- Kingsmill 456
- Kingsmill 458
- Warspite Picture Post 458
- Warspite Warspite Warspite Roberts Erebus Roberts 459
- Battle of Steenbergen 467
- Fort Cataraqui. 470
- The Scheldt in memory 471
- Slag om Woensdrecht 474
- 1st Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery 477
- 2nd Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery 477
- Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers 477
- Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers 478
- The Royal Canadian Artillery 478
- Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers 478
- 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade 478
- 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade 479
- 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade 479
- The Royal Canadian Artillery 479
- Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers 479
- 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade 479
- 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade 480
- 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade 480
- Royal Canadian Artillery 480
- Royal Canadian Corps of Engineers 480
- 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade 480
- 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade 481
- 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade 481
