Thunder in the Skies (eBook)

General Ernest Beno is Honorary Colonel, 7th Toronto Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery. He retired from the Canadian Armed Forces in 1997, after thirty-seven years of service, at the rank of Brigadier-General.

Derek Grout is a historian who has written extensively on shipwrecks and scuba diving in Canada and the United States. His book, RMS Empress of Ireland, was praised on both sides of the Atlantic. He lives in Pointe Claire, Quebec.

Foreword 
Introduction 
1A City Goes to War 
2Into the 21st Battery 
3Training and the "Mysteries of Barrack Life" 
4 "A Great Credit to Your Country" 
5 New Homes 
6 "Berlin or Bust" 
7 At Sea
8 Shorncliffe 
9"We are a Depot Brigade"
10 "Dear ... Folks" 
11 "Soldiering More Than We Have Done Since We Arrived in England"
Chapter 12 Zeppelin Attack 
13 "I Have Seen No Better Brigade This Year" 
14 To the Front 
15 A "Present to the Kaiser" 
16 The Second Division Ammunition Column
17 "Hell to the nth Power" 
18 "Absolutely the Best Pal I Ever Had"
19 "We Made the Usual Success of It"
20 Prelude to Vimy
21 The Battle of Vimy Ridge 
22 July and August 1917 
23 "Not Glad to be Back" 
24 "Like the Crack of Doom": The Battle of Passchendaele
25 Winter Quarters 
26 "Looks Like One Hell of a Job!" 
27 Operation Michael 
28 Holding the Line: May and June 1918 
29 A Much-Needed Rest 
30 Amiens: "Black Day of the German Army" 
31 Wedding Bells in "Blighty" 
32 Back to the Front 
33 Open Warfare and the Cambrai "Show" 
34 Valenciennes and the Pursuit to Mons 
35 Into the Rhineland 
36 "Blighty" and the Official Record 
37 HMT Northland and Canada
Epilogue 
Bibliography