Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944Mark Zuehlke is an expert at narrating the history of life on the battlefield for the Canadian army during World War II. In Terrible Victory, he provides a soldiers-eye-view account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland. Readers are there as soldiers fight in the muddy quagmire, enduring a battle that lasted three weeks and in which 6,000 soldiers perished. Terrible Victory is a powerful story of courage, survival, and skill. |
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Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign ... Mark Zuehlke No preview available - 2014 |
Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign ... Mark Zuehlke No preview available - 2007 |
Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign ... Mark Zuehlke No preview available - 2020 |
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