Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets - Softcover

Ross, Edward N

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1460290887 ISBN 13: 9781460290880

Publisher: FriesenPress, 2016

Synopsis

Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets draws attention to a significant part of Canadian military history, a period in which almost an entire generation of young men never returned from the battlefields of Europe. In 2017 Canada commemorates the 100th year of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The triumphant conquering of Vimy by the Canadian Corps in April 1917, was considered a defining moment in Canada's rise to nationhood. Equally significant but much less publicized was the Canadian victory at Passchendaele in the fall of 1917. It was there that more than 4,000 Canadian soldiers died, and almost 12,000 wounded. The Battle of Passchendaele will be forever remembered as a colossal slaughter in the mud of Flanders fields. Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets acknowledges those members of the 43rd Battalion who fought and died in the Ypres Salient, in the name of freedom.

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About the Author

The author, Edward N. Ross, former radio broadcaster, real estate company owner, and marketing director lives in Larder Lake, Ontario where he has resided since his retirement in 2009. In the spring of 2010, he began researching and writing about the 43rd Canadian Infantry Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Canada) CEF, and Lance Corporal Stephen Ernest Shortliffe, a great uncle who fought and died on the Western Front in the First World War. Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets has taken Edward on a personal journey from his ancestor's birthplace in Freeport, Nova Scotia to Vimy Ridge in Nord-pas-de-Calais, France, and to West-Vlaaderen, Belgium where the Battle of Passchendaele was fought in 1917.

Edition details

• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1460290887
• ISBN 13: 9781460290880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354