ON TO VICTORY. THE CANADIAN LIBERATION OF THE NETHERLANDS MARCH 23-MAY 5, 1945

Vancouver/Toronto:Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd. (2010). 2nd edition. 525pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Page edges lightly soiled but otherwise a very good clean copy inside and out with a very good, lightly shelfworn, dust jacket.  *"For the millions of Dutch facing imminent starvation, the period of their liberation, March 23 to May 5, 1945, was "the sweetest of springs."  But for the Canadians fighting a series of fierce, desperate battles in these last months of the war, it was bittersweet. A nations's freedom was being won and the war concluded, but these final hostilities cost First Canadian Army 6,289 casualties, of which 1,481 were fatal "...dj