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On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945 (Canadian Battle)

On to Victory It is remembered in the Netherlands as "the sweetest of springs," the one that saw the country's liberation from German occupation. But for the soldiers of First Canadian army, who fought their way across the Rhine River and then through Holland and northwest Germany, that spring of 1945 was bittersweet. While the Dutch were being liberated from the grinding boot heel of the Nazis, their freedom w... Full description

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