YES IT'S TRUE! Believe it or not CEF BOOKS is celebrating it's 20th Anniversary. For those who remember the first Editions in 1996 I am sorry but we are all getting old! But to celebrate we have included some very interesting news and items in this email. We think that to properly celebrate everyone should buy a book and give it to one another! 1992 JACK KIPLING IDENTIFICATION Firstly the Jack Kipling identification...
On April 9th, 1917, 100,000 Canadians stormed the strongest German position on the Western Front. It was a decisive victory for the Canadians but the price was high with 3600 men killed or died of wounds. After the battle burial squads searched the battlefield and buried the Fallen. In the post-war years Exhumation Companies concentrated these small cemeteries and isolated graves into the War Cemeteries we see today. In spite...
The Great War Tour With Norm Christie All 6 Episodes are finished and 4 are currently airing on TVO, Monday nights at 10 pm. Episode 1: Master of War on Arthur Currie; Episode 2: The Missing; Episode 3: Sacred Places, Canadian Cemeteries of the Great War, and Episode 4; The Vimy Pilgrimage, 1936. These 4 Episodes will be broadcast on The Knowledge Network May, 18, 25, June 1 & 8. They...
This will be 6 episodes when completed. Currently two, Master of War and The Missing, have been broadcast and are on-line at TVO.org. Sacred Places and The Vimy Pilgrimage will be out shortly. We anticipate the last two shows to be available in a month. They will be broadcast on TVO as a series in April, and will be shown around the same time on Knowledge Network out west. We...
The Website In the next few weeks we will be transferring to our new website; battlefields.ca. All inquiries to cefbooks.ca will automatically forwarded to the new location. New TV Shows We have six hours of new TV shows coming up in the next few weeks. The series is entitled The Great War Tour With Norm Christie. Four shows; Master of War, The Missing, Sacred Places and The Vimy Pilgrimage will be broadcast or...
