Author: CANADIAN ARMY IN HOLLAND 1944-1945,
Title: The Canadian Army in the Netherlands 1944-1945; Het Canadese Leger in Nederland 1944-1945; L'armée Canadienne aux Pays-Bas en 1944-1945. [Original edition].
Description: S.I., External Affairs Canada, [circa], 1984. Large oblong 8°. (28x21cm.). Original limp wrappers, stapled. Full-size coloured illustration after a photograph on front cover. 14pp. of tri-lingual explanatory text in english, dutch and french, 7 full-sized black/white plates, incl. on verso of front cover and inside lower outer cover, illustrations in text, all after original photographs, 2 large battle-plans in text. Nicely designed original lino-cut exlibris pasted onto blank upper left corner of first page. Commemmorates some of the toughest battles by the Canadian Army in the course of the liberation of Holland, 1944-1945 at the end of the Second Worldwar, described in text and pictures. Very good copy. (private annotations to margins in ms. in ink by previous owner, pp. numbered iby hand by the same).

Keywords: second worldwar canadian army battle liberation holland commemmoration herdenking history liberation bevrijding nederland army