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Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment.(Brief article)(Book review)
Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment Edited by Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci, and Mike Bechthold Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, 2007 358 pp., illus., $38.95 hardcover
The Vimy Ridge battle of World War I was a touchstone in the development of Canadian nationhood, but not a major military achievement. So argues history professor Gary Sheffield in the opening chapter of this collection of 18 essays published on the 90th anniversary of the famous 1917 battle. While the Canadian Corps achieved success on the ridge, where the British and French had earlier failed, it came at a terrible cost--10,602 casualties, including 3,598 dead.
Frequently overlooked is the fact that the British played a part in the victory, starting at the top with Lieutenant-General Sir Julian Byng, the English commander of the corps and Canada's future governor general. British ...
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