Vimy: The Battle and the Legend

by Tim Cook

Book Overview

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2018 JW Dafoe Book Prize Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018 A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War, and how it came to signify and solidify Canada's national identity Why does Vimy matter? How did a four-day battle at the midpoint of the Great War, a clash that had little strategic impact on the larger Allied war effort, become elevated to a national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735233160
• ISBN13: 9780735233164
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"