Download On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23 - May 5, 1945 AudioBook Free
It is kept in mind in holland as "the sweetest of springs", the the one which noticed the country's liberation from German job. But also for the troops of First Canadian military, who fought their way across the Rhine River and then through Holland and northwest Germany, that planting season of 1945 was bittersweet. As the Dutch were being liberated from the grinding boot heel of the Nazis, their flexibility was being paid for in Canadian lives lost. On to Victory is the story of those last cruel days and nights of the war. From brutal battlefields of Holland and northwest Germany in which a collapsing enemy military still fought with brutal determination, to the unique truce where the Germans and Allies provided food to millions of Dutch people starved almost to fatality, to people heady moments when each town and city was finally liberated, this is actually the little-told history of First Canadian Army's last marketing campaign of World Battle II. With his trademark "you is there" style that pulls upon official data, veteran memories, and a keen understanding of the knowledge of combat, Make Zuehlke brings to life this final chapter in the story of Canada in World Battle II.