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The Battle of Vimy Ridge
​Sources

 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.

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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
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Historian’s Perspectives:

Introductory articles available online:
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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/
 
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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.
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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.
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Wood, Herbert F. Vimy! London: Corgi, 1972.
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