Vimy Ridge, in northeastern France ... charging over the shell-cratered, muddied landscape." Cook imagines the men of the 85th "understood that this was a very desperate situation" and that ...

Just before dawn on April 9, 1917, Lieutenant Claude Williams lay in a muddy trench in northern France, cold and shivering and ready for battle. During the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917, Canadians ...