Forgotten Victory: First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944-45

Forgotten Victory: First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944-45, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2016. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 501pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition with light corner curl to front cover. Other titles available in this series; please inquire.

During the winter of 1944–45, 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 war—an attack against the Rhineland, an area of Germany on the west bank of the Rhine. On February 8, 1945, First Canadian Army launched Operation Veritable. Infantrymen were forced to fight relentlessly, with little support and often in close quarters, for thirty-eight gruelling and costly days.