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Shoestring Soldiers
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Author : Andrew Iarocci
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2008-09-26
Shoestring Soldiers written by Andrew Iarocci and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-26 with History categories.
The Great War was a pivotal experience for twentieth-century Canada. Shoestring Soldiers is the first scholarly study since 1938 to focus exclusively on Canada's initial overseas experience from late 1914 to the end of 1915. In this exciting new work, Andrew Iarocci challenges the dominant view that the 1st Canadian Division was poorly prepared for war in 1914, and less than effective during battles in 1915. He examines the first generations of men to serve overseas with the division: their training, leadership, morale, and combat operations from Salisbury Plain to the Ypres Salient, from the La Bassée Canal to Ploegsteert Wood. Iarocci contends that setbacks and high losses in battle were not so much the products of poor training and weak leadership as they were of inadequate material resources on the Western Front. Shoestring Soldiers incorporates a wealth of research material from official documents, soldiers' letters and diaries, and the battlefields themselves, surveyed extensively by the author. It marks an important contribution to the growing body of literature on Canada in the First World War.
Shoestring Soldiers
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Author : Andrew Iarocci
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Shoestring Soldiers written by Andrew Iarocci and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with History categories.
The Great War was a pivotal experience for twentieth-century Canada. Shoestring Soldiers is the first scholarly study since 1938 to focus exclusively on Canada's initial overseas experience from late 1914 to the end of 1915. In this exciting new work, Andrew Iarocci challenges the dominant view that the 1st Canadian Division was poorly prepared for war in 1914, and less than effective during battles in 1915. He examines the first generations of men to serve overseas with the division: their training, leadership, morale, and combat operations from Salisbury Plain to the Ypres Salient, from the La Bassée Canal to Ploegsteert Wood. Iarocci contends that setbacks and high losses in battle were not so much the products of poor training and weak leadership as they were of inadequate material resources on the Western Front. Shoestring Soldiers incorporates a wealth of research material from official documents, soldiers' letters and diaries, and the battlefields themselves, surveyed extensively by the author. It marks an important contribution to the growing body of literature on Canada in the First World War.
The Embattled General
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Author : William F. Stewart
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2015-11-01
The Embattled General written by William F. Stewart and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-01 with History categories.
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.
British Military Intelligence On A Shoestring
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Author : John Jameson
language : en
Publisher: United P.C. Verlag
Release Date : 2014-04
British Military Intelligence On A Shoestring written by John Jameson and has been published by United P.C. Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04 with categories.
Roy Johnson was an ordinary lad, who spent most of his adult life investigating and winkling out, Russo/Soviet and foreign terrorist intelligence groups. After which he precisely placed a variety of accurate and false" Intel" Into their systems. His efforts contributed to the "Total Whole" Intel efforts of the Western Alliance Nations. His story is complimented with action battlefield DNA experiences and projected Soviet European Invasion This story is dedicated to all Military personnel who have risked and lost their lives for even the smallest of victories.
Shoestring S End
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Author : Tom Burkhalter
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-12-18
Shoestring S End written by Tom Burkhalter and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-18 with categories.
strategic factor in two theaters, the South Pacific, which includes Guadalcanal at the southern end of the Solomons chain, and the Southwest Pacific, which includes New Guinea. Possession of Rabaul allows the Japanese to strike Allied forces in either theater.Jimmy Ardana returns to the 35th Fighter Group after recovering from malaria and assorted jungle fevers. The war of the 35th Fighter Group revolves around air support for the Allied troops fighting the Japanese Army at Gona and Buna. The 35th has one squadron equipped with P-38s, but the rest of the group soldiers on with increasingly worn P-39D Airacobras.Danny Evans is now command pilot of Bronco Buster II, the aging B-17E he inherited from Charlie Davis. The 19th Bomb Group has left the theater. Danny Evans and Bronco Buster II now fly for the 43rd Bomb Group. The only other heavy bombardment group in the 5th Air Force, the 90th, equipped with B-24s, suffers continual failures of equipment and training but are gradually improving. Neither group is up to full strength.Tommy "Chinkerbell" Bell makes a major mistake and finds his true home.New replacements arrive, still largely untrained beyond graduating flight school. Jimmy and Danny will have to deal with these pilots as best they can. Some will live. Some won't.The Japanese have given up on reinforcing Buna and Gona by sea. Instead, they will reinforce their southernmost base at Lae on the Huon Gulf. While the action in the South Pacific theater centers around the Marines and the naval battles around Guadalcanal, in the Southwest Pacific it's still the Royal Australian Army and Air Force and the American 5th Air Force taking the fight to the Japanese.Turn the page. The time is one minute after midnight, December 24, 1942.
Leyte 1944
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Author : Clayton K. S. Chun
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-20
Leyte 1944 written by Clayton K. S. Chun and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-20 with History categories.
The loss of the Philippines in 1942 was the worst defeat in American military history. General Douglas MacArthur, the 'Lion of Luzon', was evacuated by order of the President just before the fall, but he vowed to return, and in August 1944 he kept his word when he led what, at the time, was the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific War on the island of Leyte. This is the full story of that fateful battle, one of the most ferocious campaigns of World War II and one of huge strategic and symbolic significance. In the face of stubborn Japanese resistance, including the first systematic use of Kamikaze attacks, the US forces ground slowly forwards before another amphibious assault took the vital position of Ormoc in the last decisive battle of the campaign. Based on extensive research in the US Army's Military History Institute, along with other archival and veteran sources, this important study sheds new light on the operation that saw the US finally return to the Philippines and in doing so placed another nail firmly in the coffin of the Japanese Empire.
A Weary Road
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Author : Mark Osborne Humphries
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
A Weary Road written by Mark Osborne Humphries and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with History categories.
More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the frontline trenches in the Canadian and British forces. How did soldiers relate to suffering comrades? Did large numbers of shell shock cases affect the outcome of important battles? Was frontline psychiatric treatment as effective as many experts claimed after the war? Were Canadians treated any differently than other Commonwealth soldiers? A Weary Road is the first comprehensive study to address these important questions. Author Mark Osborne Humphries uses research from Canadian, British, and Australian archives, including hundreds of newly available hospital records and patient medical files, to provide a history of war trauma as it was experienced, treated, and managed by ordinary soldiers.
Canada S Army
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Author : J.L. Granatstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2021
Canada S Army written by J.L. Granatstein and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Canada categories.
"Originally published in 2002, Canada's Army quickly became the definitive history of the Canadian military. In the twenty intervening years, we have seen major changes to how Canadians think about their military, and in the ways Canadians fight, train, and serve their nation in peace and in war. Written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the country's leading political and military historians, Canada's Army traces the full three-hundred-year history of the Canadian military. This thoroughly revised third edition brings Granatstein's work up to date with fresh material and new scholarship on the evolving role of the military in Canadian society, along with updated sources, maps, and illustrations. It explores the military from its origins in New France to the Conquest, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812; from South Africa and the two World Wars to the Korean War and contemporary peacekeeping efforts. The third edition includes new coverage of the War in Afghanistan; NATO deployments to Poland, Latvia, and Iraq; aid to the civil power deployments; and the role of the army reserve. Granatstein points to the inevitable continuation of armed conflict around the world and makes a compelling case for Canada to maintain properly equipped and professional armed forces. Masterfully written and passionately argued, Canada's Army offers a rich analysis of the political context for the battles and events that shape our understanding of the Canadian military."--
Air University Library Index To Military Periodicals
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Air University Library Index To Military Periodicals written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Aeronautics categories.
The Imperial Army Project
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Author : Douglas E. Delaney
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-25
The Imperial Army Project written by Douglas E. Delaney and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with History categories.
How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars? What did the British want from the dominion and Indian armies and how did they go about trying to get it? Douglas E Delaney seeks to answer these questions to understand whether the imperial army project was successful. Answering these questions requires a long-term perspective — one that begins with efforts to fix the armies of the British Empire in the aftermath of their desultory performance in South Africa (1899-1903) and follows through to the high point of imperial military cooperation during the Second World War. Based on multi-archival research conducted in six different countries, on four continents, Delaney argues that the military compatibility of the British Empire armies was the product of a deliberate and enduring imperial army project, one that aimed at standardizing and piecing together the armies of the empire, while, at the same time, accommodating the burgeoning autonomy of the dominions and even India. At its core, this book is really about how a military coalition worked.