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MCKENZIE (F.A.)
Canada's Day of Glory.
1st Ed., 342pp. Toronto: William Briggs.
1918
#70159
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A full account of the Vimy Ridge epic, including preparations for it, but also including & description of the ethos of the CEF & accounts of earlier periods, viz, Part II, Scattered Fields, 1915-16 (Ypres, Somme); Part III, Waiting Around Messines 1915-16 & Part IV, Men and Things (concerning Intelligence, How the Americans helped Canada, &c.). Note: Frederick Arthur McKenzie (1869-1931) was a Quebec-born journalist who was evidently 'embedded' with the CEF on the Western Front in order to pen such an atmospheric account. Orig. green cloth, titled in black, VG.
£45
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