The Battle of the Scheldt

For over two months in the autumn of 1944 British and Canadian troops struggled through the mud and wet of the Scheldt estuary in a heroic attempt to open the port of Antwerp to Allied shipping. Eventually they were successful and official histories record this struggle as a triumph for the Allied forces but the facts revealed in this book tell a different story. First published in Canada as "Tug Of War', by Stoddart Publishing Co., Ontario. The authors present a serious indictment against the service chiefs who allowed nearly 13,000 young men to die on the sodden polders of Zeeland in a conflict which one night's fighting could have settled.

W.Denis Whitaker, Shelagh Whitaker
Hardcover with d/w 461pp Souvenir Press 1985

Fine/Fine