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Book The C A M C  With the Canadian Corps During the Last Hundred Days of the Great War  By A  E  Snell  Etc   With Maps

Download or read book The C A M C With the Canadian Corps During the Last Hundred Days of the Great War By A E Snell Etc With Maps written by Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The C A M C

Download or read book The C A M C written by A. E. Snell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The C A M C  with the Canadian Corps During the Last Hundred Days of the Great War  Based on Material and Maps Supplied by the Historical Section of the General Staff  Published by Authority of the Hon  E M  Macdonald  Minister of National Defence

Download or read book The C A M C with the Canadian Corps During the Last Hundred Days of the Great War Based on Material and Maps Supplied by the Historical Section of the General Staff Published by Authority of the Hon E M Macdonald Minister of National Defence written by A. E. Snell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Canadian Experience of the Great War

Download or read book The Canadian Experience of the Great War written by Brian Douglas Tennyson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort—400,000 of them overseas—out of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000 were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a pivotal turning point in the history of the modern world, and its mindless slaughter shattered a generation and destroyed seemingly secure values. The literature that the First World War generated, and continues to generate so many years later, is enormous and addresses a multitude of cultural and social matters in the history of Canada and the war itself. Although many scholars have brilliantly analyzed the literature of the war, little has been done to catalog the writings of ordinary participants: men and women who served in the war and wrote about it but are not included among well-known poets, novelists, and memoirists. Indeed, we don’t even know how many titles these people published, nor do we know how many more titles were added later by relatives who considered the recollections or collected letters worthy of publication. Brian Douglas Tennyson’s The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs is the first attempt to identify all of the published accounts of First World War experiences by Canadian veterans.

Book Canada s Hundred Days

Download or read book Canada s Hundred Days written by John Frederick Bligh Livesay and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sister Soldiers of the Great War

Download or read book Sister Soldiers of the Great War written by Cynthia Toman and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am on night duty ... on what is supposed to be the ‘hopeless ward’ so you can imagine, or try to, just what I am doing. I know you cannot really have the faintest idea ...” In Sister Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada’s first women soldiers – nursing sisters who enlisted as officers with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. These experienced professional nurses left their friends, families, and jobs to enlist in the army. Granted relative rank and equal pay to men, they had a mandate to salvage as many sick and wounded men as possible for return to the front lines. Nothing prepared them for poor living conditions, the scale of casualties, or the type of wounds they encountered, but their letters and diaries reveal that they were determined to soldier on under all circumstances while still “living as well as possible.”

Book War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps

Download or read book War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps written by John George Adami and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada s Hundred Days

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. F. B. Livesay
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-10-15
  • ISBN : 9780265347188
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Canada s Hundred Days written by J. F. B. Livesay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps From Amiens to Mons, Aug 8 Nov, Nov, 11, 1918 Canadian Corps during the Hundred Days. To that consideration every other has been subordinated. By identifying so far as possible the actual battle position of individual battalions it is hoped to stimulate local pride and interest in their respective territorial or recruiting areas. Difficulties were here encountered, both through absence Of detailed Oflicial narratives and limitations of space, but if full justice has not been done each fighting unit, it is not from lack of application and goodwill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Capturing Hill 70

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  • Author : Douglas E. Delaney
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2016-11-07
  • ISBN : 0774833629
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Capturing Hill 70 written by Douglas E. Delaney and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, a vital piece of ground just north of the French industrial town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and defeated three days of determined German counter attacks. This spectacularly successful but shockingly costly battle was as innovative as Vimy, yet only a handful of Canadians have heard of it or of subsequent attempts to capture Lens, which resulted in nearly 3,300 more casualties. In Capturing Hill 70, leading military historians mark the centenary of this triumph by dissecting different facets of the battle, from planning and the conduct of operations to long-term repercussions and commemoration. This richly illustrated and thought-provoking book reinstates Hill 70 to its rightful place among the pantheon of battles that helped forge the reputation of the famed Canadian Corps during the First World War, and it sheds new light on the key role played by Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie, who fought his first major action as commander of the Canadian Corps.

Book Canadian Expeditionary Force  1914 1919

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.

Book No Place to Run

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  • Author : Tim Cook
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 077484180X
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book No Place to Run written by Tim Cook and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of the First World War have often dismissed the important role of poison gas in the battles of the Western Front. Tim Cook shows that the serious threat of gas did not disappear with the introduction of gas masks. By 1918, gas shells were used by all armies to deluge the battlefield, and those not instructed with a sound anti-gas doctrine left themselves exposed to this new chemical plague.This book provides a challenging re-examination of the function of gas warfare in the First World War, including its important role in delivering victory in the campaign of 1918 and its curious postwar legacy.

Book The Road Past Monchy

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  • Author : Terence Loveridge
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2024-03-05
  • ISBN : 0253068622
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book The Road Past Monchy written by Terence Loveridge and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Loveridge offers a unique look at the land and air operations around the strategic village of Monchy-le-Preux at the center of the western front during World War I. The story of the Great War is usually one of condemnation or rehabilitation of strategists and consecration of the common soldier, while the story of those who planned, directed, and led operations on the ground has generally been overlooked. Loveridge uses experiences of junior leaders fighting around the key terrain of Monchy-le-Preux to challenge the currently accepted views and reveal that the Great War, despite subsequent impression, was a surprisingly dynamic effort conducted in an arena of constantly evolving practices, techniques, and technology. Less well known than its contemporary campaigns at the Somme, Verdun, or Passchendaele, Monchy also carries less preconceived baggage and thus offers a prime opportunity to reevaluate the accepted wisdom of the events, personalities, and understandings of the Great War. The Road Past Monchy offers readers a unique chance to uncover the "lost" perspective of junior war leaders in a theater of war that saw almost continuous operations from 1914 through to 1918.

Book Canada s Hundred Days  With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons  Aug  8 Nov  11  1918

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 . This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Enough to Fight

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  • Author : Dan Black
  • Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
  • Release : 2013-09-18
  • ISBN : 1459405420
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Old Enough to Fight written by Dan Black and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured or suffered psychological wounds. Many died. This is the first book to tell their story. Some boys joined up to escape unhappy homes and workplaces. Others went with their parents' blessing, carrying letters from fathers and mothers asking the recruiters to take their eager sons. The romantic notion of a short, victorious campaign was wiped out the second these boys arrived on the Western Front. The authors, who narrate the fighting with both military professionalism and humanity, portray many boys who, in the heat of battle, made a seamless transition from follower to leader to hero. Authors Dan Black and John Boileau combed the archives and collections to bring these stories to life. Passages from letters the boy soldiers wrote home reveal the range of emotions and experiences they underwent, from the humorous to the unspeakably horrible. Their parents' letters touch us with their concern, love, uncertainty, and often, grief. Meticulously researched and abundantly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and a collection of specially commissioned maps, Old Enough to Fight is Canadian military and social history at its most fascinating.

Book Death or Deliverance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Teresa Iacobelli
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2013-08-27
  • ISBN : 0774825707
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Death or Deliverance written by Teresa Iacobelli and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series often depict courts martial as brutal and inflexible, and social memories of this system of frontline justice have inspired modern movements to seek pardons for soldiers executed on the battlefield. In this revealing look at military law in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Teresa Iacobelli brings to light not only the trials of 25 Canadian soldiers who were executed but also the untold cases of 197 men sentenced to death but spared. Looking beyond stories of callous generals and quick executions, Iacobelli reveals a disciplinary system capable of thoughtful review and compassion for the individual soldier. Published to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, Death or Deliverance reconsiders an important and unexamined chapter in the history of both a war and a nation.