Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 3, Cambrai

In the final hundred days of the Great War, the Canadian Corps became the sharpened spear of Allied advance. This volume chronicles their role in the Battle of Cambrai, where, after nearly four years of brutal trench warfare, the soldiers who had bled at Vimy and Passchendaele finally broke the German Hindenburg Line. John Frederick Bligh Livesay, a Canadian war correspondent embedded with the CEF, documents the rapid succession of battles that would end in armistice: the artillery barrages, the infantry advances across shattered terrain, the capture of strategic railway hubs, and the relentless pursuit that drove the enemy back toward the Belgian border. Cambrai marked a turning point not merely in tactics but in momentum, as the German defense crumbled and the war that had consumed a generation reached its inevitable conclusion. For readers seeking to understand how Canada came to occupy a singular place in the Allied hierarchy, this account offers granular detail from the ground level of history. It is military history written by someone who watched the bullets and felt the ground shake beneath artillery fire.