num_pages: 727
description: Shock Troops follows the Canadian fighting forces during the titanic battles of Vimy Ridge Hill 70 Passchendaele and the Hundred Days campaign. Through the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches on the Western Front and based on newly uncovered Canadian British and German archival sources Cook builds on Volume I of his national bestseller At the Sharp End . The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war and although they paid a terrible price in the killing fields of the Great War they were indeed as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed the shock troops of the Empire.
language: English
title: Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918 Volume 2
publisher: Viking