The Hardest Battle: The Canadian Corps and the Arras 1918 Campaign (Stewart Wiliam F.)(Paperback)

The Canadian Corps' Second Arras campaign was its most significant operational assignment of the war. More pivotal than Vimy, Passchendaele, or Amiens, its task was to smash through a 15-kilometer zone of five fortified positions including the formidable Drocourt-Quant Line and then cross the Canal du Nord. In doing so, it would rupture the German defenses on the Western Front. The commander of the Canadian Corps, Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Currie, considered the Corps' actions in the campaign as 'the hardest battle in its history.' In his diary, he wrote he thought it a greater victory than Amiens.
The German High Command, well aware of the sector's vital importance, defended it with all they had. The German formations that fought there deemed it momentous. Multiple elite divisional histories regarded it as one of the high points of their service in the First World War.
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