In the early fall of 1939 Canada joined Great Britain in declaring war on Nazi Germany, and Geoff Jackson, a young farmhand from Sundre, Alberta enlists the very next day. By chance (and perhaps inspired by the boyhood memory of watching a Battery of Field Artillery rolling by his school in Northumberland) he chooses to enlist in the Royal Canadian Artillery.
This book tells the story of his experiences, through his training in Canada and England, his arrival in France mere weeks after D-Day, and the long winter and spring of combat as the Canadian forces fought through France, Belgium, Holland, and into Northern Germany.
Geoff Jackson brings the perspective of the enlisted man to the war. His keen eye for detail and his gift for telling a good story helps to bring this important time in Canadian history to life.