1917.
The Western Front is waking from a bitter winter that has locked the land in ice for months. With the promise of spring looming on the horizon the allied armies once again plan to go on the offensive.
At Arras the British forces will attack, pitching themselves against the German lines in a bid to break the stalemate once and for all. After the failures of Nineteen Sixteen there is a chance, a hope, that this time they will end the deadlock on the Western Front.
Threatening the British flank, Vimy Ridge stands like a rock above the Douai plain. The enemy has held it since the first months of the war and have turned it into a fortress that has defeated all attacks made against its network of trenches, bunkers and tunnels. The Germans are confident that it will hold out again.
Nonetheless, the Canadians are determined to take the six miles of ridge. In the face of a fierce blizzard they will attack and win a place in history.
Temporarily attached to a company of engineers tasked with seizing the tunnels that lie hidden beneath Vimy Ridge, Harry and his section will find themselves caught in the grip of the storm as they battle their way onto the ridge and below it, fighting with the Canadians to take a position the Germans consider impregnable.
The Western Front is waking from a bitter winter that has locked the land in ice for months. With the promise of spring looming on the horizon the allied armies once again plan to go on the offensive.
At Arras the British forces will attack, pitching themselves against the German lines in a bid to break the stalemate once and for all. After the failures of Nineteen Sixteen there is a chance, a hope, that this time they will end the deadlock on the Western Front.
Threatening the British flank, Vimy Ridge stands like a rock above the Douai plain. The enemy has held it since the first months of the war and have turned it into a fortress that has defeated all attacks made against its network of trenches, bunkers and tunnels. The Germans are confident that it will hold out again.
Nonetheless, the Canadians are determined to take the six miles of ridge. In the face of a fierce blizzard they will attack and win a place in history.
Temporarily attached to a company of engineers tasked with seizing the tunnels that lie hidden beneath Vimy Ridge, Harry and his section will find themselves caught in the grip of the storm as they battle their way onto the ridge and below it, fighting with the Canadians to take a position the Germans consider impregnable.
