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Cargando... Tug of War: The Canadian Victory That Opened Antwerppor W. Denis Whitaker
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Although incredibly detailed, this is a surprisingly readable account of the Canadian Army's victory in the Battle of the Scheldt. The Allies needed the port of Antwerp in which to bring in desperately needed supplies to complete the final thrust into Germany. With the capture of Antwerp almost completely in tact and the German Army running for safety in Germany, a malaise took over the troops and some commanders because they thought that the War was over. This permitted the Germans to save a large portion of its forces which was trapped and use them to fortify the islands in the Scheldt which then controlled access to Antwerp. Thousands of lives were lost removing those troops and many of them were Canadian because these were the troops assigned to clear out the enemy. For weeks, the Canadians slogged through flood polders and muddy river banks fighting a fierce enemy trying to save its homeland. They were often criticized for taking so long to do it by people who had no idea of the difficulties these men were facing. W. Denis Whitaker was an officer who served in this battle but he relies on interviews with participants on all sides plus memories, diaries. and other sources. The accounts by soldiers and civilians who lived through the Battle give a good picture of the horror that took place in Belgium and Holland in late 1944. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
These place names live on in the memories of Second World War veterans of Canadian Infantry and Armored Divisions who fought in the mud and wet against an unbending enemy. Meticulously researched in Europe, Great Britain, and Canada, Tug of War does not tread lightly on accepted notions of military historians. For the youths of 19 and 20 who died miserably on the sodden polders of Zeeland, this is their story. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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