Vimy Author:Pierre Berton "On a chill Easter Monday in 1917 the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France did what the British and French armies had failed to do - they seized the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front, a muddy scarp known as the Vimy Ridge. In his account of this great battle, Pierre Breton brilliantly iluminates the moment of tragedy an... more »d greatness that marked Canada's emergnce as a nation."« less