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The men of the 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion were some of the most effective shock troops of the Allied forces in the Great War. They drove back German forces wherever they met and refused ever to surrender. Such tactics struck fear in their enemies, yet, it came at a tremendous cost. Of the 5374 officers and men who passed through the unit, a total of 4917, or 91 per cent, were either killed or wounded. J. L. McWilliams and R. James Steel chart the history of this battalion from when it was formed on November 7, 1914 through all of its major battles, including the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, the Hundred Days Offensive and breaking through the Hindenburg Line, to when it was finally disbanded at the end of the war. Rather than focus simply on the grand strategies of generals, McWilliams and Steel use numerous personal accounts, both written at the time and afterwards, to depict what life was life for the regular soldier of the 46th Battalion during these treacherous years spent in muddy trenches in France and Belgium.

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R. James Steel is coauthor, with J. L. McWilliams, of several books, including Amiens: Dawn of Victory, The Suicide Battalion, and Gas!: The Battle for Ypres, 1915. J. L. McWilliams is the author of The MacHugh Memoirs, a series of historical adventure novels based on a Canadian adventurer, Rory MacHugh, in the early 1800s. One book in the series, A Secret of the Sphinx, was a finalist in the global Book Excellence Awards. McWilliams has also coauthored several books with R. James Steel, including Amiens: Dawn of Victory, The Suicide Battalion, and Gas!: The Battle for Ypres, 1915. Graham Rowat, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a television and theater actor who is best known for his stage performance in Dracula, Beauty and the Beast, and Mamma Mia.

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