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The Canadians at Arras and the Drocourt-Queant Line, August-September, 1918 : a social history and battlefield tour / by N.M. Christie.

Title
The Canadians at Arras and the Drocourt-Queant Line, August-September, 1918 : a social history and battlefield tour / by N.M. Christie.
Author
Christie, N. M.
Publication
Nepean, Ont. : CEF Books, 1997.

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Description
90 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 23 cm.
Summary
"The Battle of Arras and the breaking of the Drocourt-Queant line was the greatest military achievement of the Great War. In 9 days the 100,000 men of the Canadian Corps broke through 5 successive German defensive lines and turned the main German position on the Western front. The tenacity of the Canadian attack and its execution surprised the enemy and from 26th August to the 3rd September 1918 it was a fight to the finish. In the end it was Canadian ingenuity, flexibility and courage that won the day. The cost to Canada was 11,000 Canadian men killed, wounded and missing." "Today the names associated with the greatest Canadian military victory have been forgotten. But in the rolling French countryside and small farming villages the fallen of 1918 are not forgotten. They rest in small cemeteries, their graves lie neatly, proudly displaying the Canadian Maple Leaf." "The Canadians at Arras 1918 records that titanic struggle that took place 80 years ago and serves as a memorial to those Canadian men. It is the fifth volume in the For King & Empire series documenting the Canadian Battlefields of the First World War."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
  • For king and empire ; v. 5
  • Christie, N. M. For king and empire v. 5.
Subject
  • Canada. Canadian Expeditionary Force
  • 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Guidebooks
  • Cemeteries > France > Guidebooks
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > France
  • Battlefields > France > Guidebooks
  • War memorials > France > Guidebooks
  • Arras (France) > History
Genre/Form
Guidebooks
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Newfoundlanders: p. 80-82.
ISBN
1896979165
LCCN
cn^97900835^
OCLC
  • 41713056
  • SCSB-11270221
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library