Название: Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada's First World War
Автор: Matthew Barrett, Robert C. Engen
Издательство: McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 0228010578
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 347
Размер: 84,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

By the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie, was tasked with capturing Hill 70, a German stronghold near the French town of Lens. After securing the hill on 15 August, Canadian soldiers endured days of shelling, machine-gun fire, and poison gas as they repelled relentless enemy counterattacks.