Brave Battalion : The Remarkable Saga of the

The company was completely bunched in front of the wire. Some men threw bombs toward the German trench while others tried to beat down the wooden stakes supporting the wire with their rifle butts and then trample it into the mud. The German grenades generally fell short as they were throwing uphill, but their rifle fire was "deadly accurate." Casualties mounted. Unless something were to be done quickly, Mackie realized that No. 4 Company would be wiped out.

Mark Zuehlke has been hailed by Jack Granatstein as Canada's most popular military historian. Of his twenty books, nine have been works of military history. For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace won the Canadian Authors Association 2007 Lela Common Award for Canadian History. In 2006, Holding Juno:Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches, June7-12, 1944 was awarded the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.

Also a novelist, Zuehlke is known for the acclaimed Elias McCann mystery series, which chronicles the misadventures of a coroner in British Columbia's Tofino. Hands Like Clouds garnered a Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Best First Novel award in 2000, and Sweep Lotus was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Best Novel in 2004. Zuehlke lives in Victoria, BC. He can be found on the web at www.zuehlke.ca.

List of Maps	p. VI
Order of Battle for the Canadian Infantry	p. VII
Order of Ranks in the Canadian Infantry	p. VIII
Acknowledgements	p. IX
Prologue: Make Every Sacrifice-August 1914	p. 1
"Ready, Aye, Ready!"-August 1914-February 1915	p. 7
Learning War-February-April 1915	p. 27
Baptism-April 22-May 4, 1915	p. 45
Blown to Hell-May 14-June 13, 1915	p. 65
Trench Warfare Drudgery-June 1915-March 1916	p. 81
Return to the Salient-March 28-August 9, 1916	p. 97
Crisis in the Somme-August 9-October 11, 1916	p. 119
Vimy-October 12, 1916-May 4, 1917	p. 143
It Isn't Worth a Drop of Blood!-June 7, 1917-August 4, 1918	p. 167
Decision at Amiens-August 8-20, 1918	p. 189
The Finest Performance-August 20-September 3, 1918	p. 211
Drive to Victory-October 2-November 11, 1918	p. 237
Endnotes	p. 259
Bibliography	p. 269
Index of Units, Formations, and Corps	p. 273
General Index	p. 279
About the Author	p. 289
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Brave Battalion : The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War

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