A little more than 12 hours before the end of the Second World War in Europe, a young Canadian padre, accompanied by an equally young tank commander, set off into the cool, rainy countryside of northern Germany on an errand of mercy. Or so they thought. Honorary Capt. Albert McCreery and Lt. Norman Goldie had only been with the Canadian Grenadier Guards tank regiment for less than a month. It was May 4, 1945. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich was in its final hours and Nazi soldiers alternated between fighting to the death and surrendering. The war diary of the guards...
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