History Hack: Vimy Ridge - The Birth of a Nation?

On the 105th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, three of Canada's foremost historians join this special episode of History Hack, in association with the Great War Group, to discuss the battle, its aftermath and the myth-making that has to lead to it being called by some in Canada "The Birth of a Nation".

Joining our resident Canadian Boney and Great War Group Trustee Andrew Lock are:

• Author, historian and cartographer Mike Bechthold PhD. Mike specialises in the fields of military airpower, the Canadian army in Normandy and Northwest Europe and the Canadian Corps in the Great War. He currently teaches history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
• Photographic historian Carla-Jean Stokes. Carla-Jean won the Photographic Historical Society of Canada thesis prize for her paper, “British Official First World War Photographs, 1916-1918: Arranging and Contextualizing a Collection of Prints at the Art Gallery of Ontario” which was later published in Photographic Canadiana.
• Author and historian Dr Tim Cook CM. Tim is the Senior Historian at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and is the author of 13 books on Canada in the Great War and Second World War, including Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. In 2014, Tim was appointed a member of the Order of Canada.

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