Download or read book Canada s Hundred Days With The Canadian Corps From Amiens To Mons Aug 8 Nov 11 1918 written by John Frederick Bligh Livesay and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allied forces on the Western Front had taken a beating under the weight and new tactics of the German army masterminded by General Ludendorff in 1918. However in August the Allies were ready to fight back, and they did so with a vengeance; spearheaded by the Canadian and Australian corps and 500 tanks the allied forces hammered through the German lines. Ludendorff dubbed it as “the Black Day of the German Army”. This was the start of the Battle of Amiens and would be the prelude to advances undreamed of by the Allies in earlier years of the war. The Canadian Corps had long established a reputation as a crack formation within the Allied armies and set to their task of rolling up the German lines with a passion. For the next hundred days the allied forces would surge forward and finally force the German forces to final capitulation. As a noted Canadian Author John Livesay set out to record the achievements of his countrymen during the culminating campaign of the First World War. He recounts with élan and excellent detail; the dash and perseverance of the Canadians in forcing the Germans from one position to the next. Author —John Frederick Bligh Livesay 1875-1944. Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in Toronto, T. Allen, 1919. Original Page Count – x and 421 pages.
Download or read book Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Currie and the Canadian Corps 1917 1918 written by Ian Malcolm Brown and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Arthur Currie written by Daniel George Dancocks and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selected Papers of Sir Arthur Currie written by Sir Arthur Currie and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an in-depth insight of Sir Arthur Currie delving into the hidden history of the man, the general, and the Canadians he commanded in the Canadian Corps, through his diaries, letters, and final report to the ministry.
Download or read book Lieutenant general Sir Arthur Currie and the Canadian Corps 1917 1918 microform the Evolution of a Style of Command and Attack written by Ian Malcolm Brown and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arthur Currie written by Hugh M. Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada in the Great World War The triumph of the allies written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering General Sir Arthur Currie written by Graeme T. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Embattled General written by William F. Stewart and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Turner (1871-1961) was a capable but controversial Canadian general who played a critical role in the development of the Canadian Corps up to 1917 and contributed significantly to its success thereafter. Despite his many accomplishments (including being awarded the Victoria Cross), Turner is often portrayed as a political appointee and repeated failure - representations that ignore, minimize, or misconstrue his successes as a combat commander and head of Canadian forces in England. In The Embattled General, William Stewart reveals Turner's tactical, operational, and administrative contributions to the Canadian war effort. Uniquely, Turner held senior commands in both combat arms and administration. Stewart narrates and analyzes Turner's successes and failures in the Boer War and the First World War's battles of Ypres, Festubert, St Eloi, and the Somme. He also studies Turner's career after his transfer to command Canadian forces in England in December 1916, where Turner reformed an administration in chaos. After the war, Turner post-war played a key role in the formation of the Royal Canadian Legion. Based on exhaustive research from over 1,200 volumes of material, including many previously untouched sources, The Embattled General provides a balanced and just re-evaluation of Turner, identifying his merits as well as his flaws.
Download or read book Shock Troops written by Tim Cook and published by Viking. This book was released on 2008 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues: At the sharp end: Canadians fighting the Great War, 1914-1916.
Download or read book Great War Commands written by Andrew B. Godefroy and published by Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together Canada's leading military historians of the First World War to conduct the first ever in-depth study of the senior leadership of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). Although by no means exhaustive, this book presents a major contribution to broadening the current understanding of how the CEF was led and why it performed as it did both at home and on the battle-fields of the Western Front--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Canada and the Battle of Vimy Ridge 9 12 April 1917 written by Brereton Greenhous and published by Canada Communications Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle. It describes and analyses factors leading up to the event as well as the event itself. With abundant illustrations the document describes the thoughts of some soldiers and sets the stage for the battle by describing the political situation in Canada and the events leading up to the battle. Following 3 chapters devoted to the battle itself, a final chapter describes the Vimy Memorial.
Download or read book Shock Army of the British Empire written by Shane B. Schreiber and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an operational history of the Canadian Corps in the battles of the final 100 days of World War I, beginning with the battle of Amiens, August 8, 1918, and culminating in the retaking of Mons on November 11, 1918, only hours before the war ended. During the late summer and autumn of 1918, the Canadian Corps, under Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur Currie, played a crucial role in the defeat of the German Army on the Western Front. This work examines the operational, organizational, and tactical innovations developed by the Corps during this campaign and their subsequent effect on military thought. Six battles are examined for their planning, conduct, and lessons: the Battle of Amiens, the breaking of the Drocourt-Queant line, the Canal du Nord and Cambrai, the pursuit to Valenciennes, the storming of Mount Huoy, and the return to Mons.
Download or read book The Madman and the Butcher written by Tim Cook and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on newly uncovered sources, The Madman and the Butcher is a powerful double biography of Sam Hughes and Arthur Currie and the story of one of the most shocking and highly publicized libel trials in Canadian history. Sir Arthur Currie achieved international fame as Canadian Corps commander during the Great War. He was recognized as a brilliant general, morally brave, and with a keen eye for solving the challenges of trench warfare. But wars were not won without lives lost. Who was to blame for Canada's 60,000 dead? Sir Sam Hughes, Canada's war minister during the first two and a half years of the conflict, was erratic, outspoken, and regarded by many as insane. Yet he was an expert on the war. He attacked Currie's reputation in the war's aftermath, accusing him of being a butcher, a callous murderer of his own men. Set against the backdrop of Canadians fighting in the Great War, this engaging narrative explores questions of Canada's role in the war, the need to place blame for the terrible blood loss, the nation's discomfort with heroes, and the very public war of reputations that raged on after the guns fell silent.
Download or read book The Canadian Corps in World War I written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18. Canada's 600,000 troops of whom more than 66,000 died and nearly 150,000 were wounded represented an extraordinary contribution to the British Empire's struggle. On grim battlefields from the Ypres Salient to the Somme, and from their stunning victory at Vimy Ridge to the final triumphant 'Hundred Days' advance of autumn 1918, Canada's soldiers proved themselves to be a remarkable army in their own right, founding a national tradition.
Download or read book Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914 1919 written by G.W.L. Nicholson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.
Download or read book Vimy written by Pierre Berton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, award-winning author of The American Invasion of Canada “has given great drama and immediacy to that turning point in Canadian history” (Maclean’s). On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front—the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had failed to take the Ridge, and so had the French who had lost 150,000 men in the attempt. Yet these magnificent colonial troops did so in a morning at the cost of only 10,000 casualties. The author recounts this remarkable feat of arms with both pace and style. He has gathered many personal accounts from soldiers who fought at Vimy. He describes the commanders and the men, the organization and the training, and above all notes the thorough preparation for the attack from which the British General Staff could have learned much. The action is placed within the context both of the Battle of Arras, of which this attack was part, and as a milestone in the development of Canada as a nation. “This wonderful book brings to life the amazing men who came across the Atlantic nearly a century ago and won a famous victory which helped change a nation forever . . . the wonderful prose of Pierre Berton is all from the heart and you should share in it.” —War History Online “The cinematic writing plunks the reader in the midst of the actual battle, and a judicious use of quotes from soldiers’ diaries and letters helps provide a ground-level perspective.” —Quill & Quire
