Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 1, Amiens

The final hundred days of the Great War saw a remarkable reversal that few thought possible. After nearly four years of brutal stalemate in the trenches, the Allied forces launched an offensive that would end the conflict. At the center of this last great push stood the Canadian Corps, a force that had earned a reputation for tactical brilliance and relentless determination.John Frederick Bligh Livesay, a war correspondent who witnessed these events firsthand, documents the Canadian Expeditionary Force's decisive role in the campaign that stretched from Amiens in August 1918 to Mons in November. The Canadians were among the first to breach the formidable Hindenburg Line, then drove onward through Arras, Cambrai, and into Belgium, ultimately reaching Mons, the very place where the war had begun for Britain and its Empire four years earlier.This account captures not merely the sweep of military strategy but the raw courage of soldiers who, after years of unimaginable hardship, finally saw victory within reach. The narrative traces a remarkable journey from the darkened tunnels of trench warfare into the open terrain of a defeated enemy's retreat.