Forgotten Victory : First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944-45 Product Form:Paperback / softback The Legion Cafe

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they would very likely lose Canada--both the French and the British had their backs to the wall

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and with his usual verve and narrative skill

Forgotten Victory : First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944-45 Product Form:Paperback / softback The Legion CafeDescription During the winter of 194445, the western allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany's quick defeat. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers in trenches and dugouts suffered through the bitterest European winter in fifty years. The Allied high command decided that First Canadian Army would launch the pivotal offensive to win the waran attack against the Rhineland, an area of Germany on the west bank of the Rhine. Winning this