FORGOTTEN VICTORY. First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944-45

Vancouver:Douglas & McIntyre. (2014). 1st edition. 501pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A  very good, clean copy inside and out with a very good, clean dust jacket.  * "In the winter of 1944-45, while Allied high command devised a strategy to defeat Germany, hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered in the battlefields through Europe's bitterest winter in over fifty years.  An attack on the Rhineland was considered the road to victory. But before the Allies could strike, Hitler launched an offensive against Antwerp, and by the time the Germans were driven back to their start lines, the ground had turned to quagmire. Yet, First Canadian Army advanced against German troops under orders not to surrender an inch of soil.  With tanks mired in seas of mud, thousands of British and Canadian infantrymen fought alone and often at close quarters for thirty-eight gruelling days."...dj