Vimy by Berton, Pierre

Vimy, Berton, Pierre. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1986. 308 pages of text, + appendices, notes, bibliography, index, illustration, and maps. Red boards with gilt medallion front and gilt spine titles; illustrated endpapers. Contents in fine condition without markings, tears or folds; dustjacket has chipping to edges.

Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of fighting: they had seized the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front...
Drawing on unpublished personal accounts and interviews, Berton brings home what it was like for the young men.... painting a vivid picture of trench warfare.