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Primary Documents and Official Accounts:
G.W.L. Nicholson, Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1964. (Available online as a PDF.) http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=22 See Chapter 8 The Battle of Vimy Ridge, 9-14 April 1917. Internet Resources: Veterans Affairs Canada - Battle of Vimy Ridge http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/vimy-ridge Canadian War Museum - The Battle of Vimy Ridge http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/vimy/index_e.shtml Library and Archives Canada - We Were There – Donald Fraser (31st Alberta Battalion) (Diary excerpt and general information on Vimy, lots of maps and planning documents.) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/firstworldwar/025005-2400-e.html Library and Archives Canada - Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918 (Contains several interviews with transcripts and photos.) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/025015-1200-e.html |
Historian’s Perspectives:
Introductory articles available online: Legion Magazine: Canada & the Victoria Cross Series Vimy and More: Part 6 of 18 November 1, 2004 by Arthur Bishop https://legionmagazine.com/en/2004/11/vimy-and-more/ Books and Monographs: Berton, Pierre. Vimy. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986. Cook, Tim. Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918, vol. 2, Shock Troops. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2008, chapters 4 – 9, pp. 73 – 148. Greenhous, Brereton, and Stephen J. Harris. Canada and the Battle of Vimy Ridge, 8-12 April 1917. Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1992. Hayes, Geoffrey, Andrew Iarocci and Mike Bechthold. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Re-Assessment. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. Macintyre, D.E. Canada at Vimy. Toronto: Peter Martin, 1967. McKee, Alexander. Vimy Ridge. London: Pan, 1968. Nicholson, G.W.L. Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1962, pp. 247-268. Turner, Alexander. Vimy Ridge 1917: Byng’s Canadians Triumph at Arras. Botley: Osprey, 2005. Wood, Herbert F. Vimy! London: Corgi, 1972. |