Terrible Victory
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The Toronto Star
Victoria’s Mark Zuehlke is nothing if not prolific…Another new Zuehlke book chronicles a vicious conflict with a name – the Scheldt Estuary – that will be horribly familiar to many of those at the Old City Hall ceremonies this morning [November 11]. The savage two-month battle to free the crucial waterway linking the port of Antwerp to the North Sea is told in Terrible Victory: The first Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, September 13- November 6, 1944. |
Esprit de Corps
Zuehlke has produced another winner. Terrible Victory covers the little known series of battles to wrest the strategically vital Scheldt estuary from the Germans….it was a tough grinding slog that resulted in more Canadian deaths than any other battle in the war. Zuehlke brings this story to light in his inimitable style. |
About the AuthorMark Zuehlke is an award-winning author generally considered to be Canada’s foremost popular military historian. His Canadian Battle Series is the most exhaustive recounting of the battles and campaigns fought by any nation during World War II to have been written by a single author.
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