Book for Christmas

The books are by Tim Cook and it is a two volume set about the Canadian army in The Great War.

Volume one is "At The Sharp End" and covers the period 1914 - 1916
ISBN 978 0 14 305592 1
Volume two is "Shock Troops" and covers the period from 1917 - 1918.
ISBN 978 0 14 305593 8

This isa very comphrensive two volume set and inculdes the words of both the front line private and the officers and the politicians. There is certainly a lack of some details, for example, on the Ross rifle and Sam Hughes. However books have been written no doubt, on that very subject already. Also, the concntration on the Western Front ment that other campaigns were ignored unles they intersected with the growth and development onf the Canadian Corps.

Otherwise it is a most readable and enjoyable book. Parts will shock you and they did me. I thought that I had a good understanding of the daily conditions on the western front. I didn't.

I highly recommend this two volume set to you.