On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945, Zuehlke, Mark. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2010. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 552pp. with black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Photographic card covers. In fine, unread condition. Other titles available in this series; please inquire.
The little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as “the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation. The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles during the last three months of the war, was bittersweet. A nation’s freedom was won and the war concluded, but these final hostilities cost Canada 6,298 casualties, including 1,482 dead.
