Hell in Flanders Fields: Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres

by George H. Cassar

On 22 April 1915, the men of the 1st Canadian Division faced chlorine gas, a new lethal weapon against which they had no defence. In defiance of a particularly horrible death, or, at the very least, severe lung injury, these untested Canadians fought almost continuously for four days, often hand-to-hand, as they clung stubbornly against overwhelming odds to a vital part of the Allied line after the French units on their left fled in panic. By doing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554887283
• ISBN13: 9781554887286
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"