Because We Are Canadians: A Battlefield Memoir: A Battlefield Memoir

Charles Kipp

Dec 2009 · D & M Publishers

About this ebook

This is the story of one man’s war—the memoirs of Sgt. Charles D. Kipp, who served with the Canadian army on active duty in Europe during the bloody days and weeks following D-Day. What makes this work stand out from other Second World War battlefield journals is its unadorned, almost naive sense—a guileless attention to small details, horrific and beautiful, that Kipp recalls from his experiences. 

First published in 2003, this is a must-read, not only for veterans of the War and military history buffs, but also for anyone who seeks to understand what ordinary soldiers endured during the Second World War. Charles d. Kipp was wounded nine times during ten months of fighting at the front during the Second World War. After the war, he farmed briefly before being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome and suffering a second heart attack. He passed away in January 2000.

Ratings and reviews

One of the better books about a first hand account of many different battles Sgt kipp fough and a person's will to get through and fight another day.

My father could not talk much about what he went through in the war. I got bits and pieces. Mr. Kipp shan some more light on things as what my father had gone through as well. Putting more pieces if the puzzle together.

All of the younger generations should read this. A good description of the horror of war and what their Grandfathers went through to give them the freedoms that they enjoy and take for granted today. And how close we came to be over run by evil. A B Sayles