The Suicide Battalion
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Narrated by:
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Graham Rowat
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Written by:
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J.L. McWilliams
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R. James Steel
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The men of the 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion were some of the most effective shock troops of the Allied forces in the Great War. They drove back German forces wherever they met and refused ever to surrender. Such tactics struck fear in their enemies, yet it came at a tremendous cost. Of the 5374 officers and men who passed through the unit, a total of 4917, or 91 percent, were either killed or wounded.
J. L. McWilliams and R. James Steel chart the history of this battalion from when it was formed on November 7, 1914 through all of its major battles, including the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, the Hundred Days Offensive and breaking through the Hindenburg Line, to when it was finally disbanded at the end of the war. Rather than focus simply on the grand strategies of generals, McWilliams and Steel use numerous personal accounts, both written at the time and afterwards, to depict what life was life for the regular soldier of the 46th Battalion during these treacherous years spent in muddy trenches in France and Belgium.
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- Brandon
- 2024-07-05
WW1 From Beginning to End
This book chronicles the experience of one of the more elite battalions within the Canadian Armed Forces during the Great War. There are many characters, sadly almost all of them do not come through the conflict unscathed. The unit takes part in all the major battles that the Canadians fought in during the conflict. As a Canadian from the Western Prairies myself I found it hit a little closer to home then the usual British or German memoirs I have read before. The reader does a decent job, the only thing that takes away from the listening is experience is that he uses the same hoarse "old man" voice for every character in the book.
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