This is

the B.S. I'm John Bachelor. James Holland, the historian, his new book is

brothers in arms, following one legendary tank regiment from D-Day to V-E-Day.

We're approaching the Siegfried Line and then the Rhine River, which is its own barrier,

to the Allied advance towards Germany.

James, what was Operation Veritable?

Yeah, so this is the big Canadian army push

to cross through the Reichsfeld and take the towns of Cleve and Gok.

Inka who is incidentally with General Bill Simpson's US 9 farming on their right-hand flank and Operation

grenade and then close up to the River Rhine.

So this is clearing the Rhine land to the west of the river Rhine. So this is clearing the Rhine to the west of the river Rhine,

the German territory west of the River Rhine. And it's a major, major operation, although a lot of British Second Army

are transferred into the Canadian Army. It is a Canadian Army-led operation of which

the show would range it apart. And it's just, you know, it's just, what do you get, John John is just this sort of mounting sense of the

relentlessness of it I mean we've touched on a on point 103 and crossing the

newaro and and gale but but that's only half of. I mean there's a whole lot of other operations

that the show range are involved in that we haven't mentioned because of time and all the

rest of it. It's just relentless and I think that's the thing that really struck me when I was doing this work and an operation

was a major major operation and it's very destructive and lots of people get hurt and killed.

And yet somehow they just keep going.

And the other thing that's remarkable about the show at range is they never seem to lose sight of their humanity, you know, and that's why just after capturing Cleave and, you know, the ruins of this ancient medieval city, they're going out the other side.

And Stanley Kristofsen notes in his diary

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