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A German colonel sat across from a Canadian intelligence officer in a farmhouse near Goch, February 1945. When asked to compare the three Allied armies he had fought, he said one word about the Canadians that made his own staff officer stand up and object through the wall.
He wasn't insulting them. He wasn't flattering them. He was describing something his thirty years of military training had no category for — and something the German filing system, which had correctly predicted how the French, Polish, British, and Americans would fight, could not explain.
From Ortona to Juno Beach, from the Scheldt to the Rhineland, this is the story of how the Canadian army broke every assumption the Wehrmacht held about its enemies — and why one colonel's quiet admission in a cold farmhouse became the most unsettling thing his own officers had ever heard him say.
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