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Books
You got it - these are the books Bill and I have read and/or referenced in our research for the trip.
  • At the Sharp End, Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916
    • Cook, Tim (historian at the Canadian War Museum, author)
  • Shock Troops,  Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918
    • Cook, Tim
  • Vimy
    • Pierre Burton
  • The Canadian Army at War, Vol 1 The Canadians in Britain 1939-1944
    • Minister of National Defence
  • The Canadian Army at War, Vol 2  The Canadians in Italy
    • Minister of National Defence
  • The Battalion of Heroes, The Calgary Highlanders in World War II
    • David Bercuson
  • Canadian Battlefields 1915 – 1918
    • Terry Copp, Matt Symes, Nick Lachance
  • For King and Empire, The Canadians at Passchendaele, October to November 1917
    • Norm Christie
  • Auschwitz - A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
    • Dr. Miklos Nyiszli

  • Night
    • Elie Wiesel

  • Juno Beach
    • Mark Zeuhlke

  • Holding Juno
    • Mark Zeuhkle

  • Ortona
    • Mark Zeuhlke

  • Operation Husky
    • Mark Zeuhlke
  • The Gothic Line
    • Mark Zeuhlke
  • Liri Valley
    • Mark Zeuhlke

    • On to Victory, The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands
      • Mark Zeuhlke
    • The Regiment
      • Farley Mowat

    • And No Birds Sang
      • Farley Mowat
    • Six Years of War
    • The Canadian Army
    • The Official History of the Canadian Army in World War II - Vol III
      • The Victory Campaign,The Operations in North-West Europe 1944-1945
        • Colonel C.P. Stacey
    • The D-Day Dodgers - The Canadians in Italy 1943-1945
      • Daniel G Dancocks


      Battlefield Guides
    • Ypres Salient and Passchendaele
      • Major and Mrs Holt
    • Somme
      • Major and Mrs Holt
    • Western Front - South
      • Major and Mrs Holt
    • Western Front - North
      • Major and Mrs Holt
    • D-Day - Normandy Landing Beaches 
      • Major and Mrs Holt
    • Operation Market Garden 
      • Major and Mrs Holt
    • Canadians at War (World War I)
      • Susan Evans Shaw

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