Author: Macksey, Kenneth,
Title: VIMY RIDGE 1914-18.
Description: Pan / Ballantine, London, 1973 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, maps/diagrams, numerous half tone and line ills. in text, photo pictorial wrappers, in 'The Pan / Ballantine Illustrated History of the First World War' series, Book No. 6, a brief account of the German Schlieffen Plan as modified by Moltke which led to the entrenchment of the opposing forces, and of the region of Arras where the Vimy Ridge was a particular feature and had been occupied by German forces. The Franco-British attempts to dislodge them 1914-16 were mainly unsuccessful until in 1917 the four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force took and occupied the objective, lightly rubbed at tips, old price label and small ink scribble lower wrapper, near fine,

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