Brave Battalion: The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War

By Mark Zuehlke format: hardcover publication: June 2008 ISBN: 9780470154168

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Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Mark Zuehlke focuses on one particular battalion, the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary's) Regiment, who suffered the worst loss of life and casualties among Canadian troops, and how the men bonded through their harrowing experience and came to represent the uniting and rising of a nation beginning to realize its potential Written for a general audience, and complemented by photographs taken on the battlefield, and helpful maps, this book will impress the reader with the scope and brutality of the war that was meant to end all wars. The 90th anniversary of Armistice will be extensively covered in the media. The author is recognized as Canada's leading popular military historian.

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