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Storming the Ridge--Vimy/Slaughter In the Mud*

• 2001 ----- color ----- 94 min ----- vhs
• (For King and Empire: Canada's Soldiers In the Great War series, Part 2)
  From 1914 to 1918 Canada sent 400,000 soldiers overseas to fight during the first world war… 60,000 of them died. For King and Empire: Canada's Soldiers In the Great War is the story of those soldiers. Host Norm Christie uses photos and film footage from the war, excerpts from letters sent by soldiers to loved ones, and visits to old battle sites and war memorials to show us the heroism and horror of the war and how it affected Canada.

• Episode 3 -- Storming the Ridge: The Canadians at Vimy Ridge -- 1917 (47 min) Details the attack on Vimy Ridge -- some of the tactics and the toll the effort took on the men fighting there.

• Episode 4 -- Slaughter in the Mud: The Canadians at Passchendaele -- 1917 (47 min) The Canadians are sent to Belgium to take Passchendaele Ridge and the village of Passchendaele.
  (Donated to the EMC by W. A. Douglas Jackson) (Restricted to use by institutions of learning within the State of Washington only)
• Topics: (Canadian Studies, History, History: Canadian, War and Peace)

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