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from THE BOOK
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A Soldier's View
The Personal Photographs of Canadians at War 1939-1945
by Blake Heathcote
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History •
Doubleday Canada •
Hardcover, 340 pages •
November 2005 •
$45.00 •
0-385-66000-6
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A photograph taken from the point of view of
Geoff Costeloe's Airborne Unit during Operation
Market Garden in Holland. A machine-gun emplacement
huddles down against German counterattacks. Made
famous in the film A Bridge Too Far, Market Garden
was the operation that Field Marshal Montgomery
hoped would bring the war to an end by Christmas
1944, but German resistance was unexpectedly fierce.
Not dead, only resting. An exhausted
seaman on board HMCS Iroquois. When there was
a short break, sailors would simply find a
spot and pass out for a few hours or a few
minutes of sleep, but always with their
helmets and life vests at hand.
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