Politics of Command : : Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939-1943 /

Politics of Command : : Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939-1943 / / John Nelson Rickard.

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In December 1943, Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton resigned from command of the 1st Canadian Army amidst criticism of his poor generalship and of his abrasive personality. Despite McNaughton's importance to the Canadian Army during the first four years of the Second World War, little has be...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Rickard, John Nelson,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2010
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Tables and Figures
  • Foreword / Milner, Marc
  • Preface / Leslie, Andrew
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Making of Andy McNaughton
  • 1. Early Life and the Crucible of the First World War
  • 2. The Road to High Command
  • Part Two: The Problem of Deploying the Army
  • 3. A Willingness to Fight, 1940-1941
  • 4. From ROUNDUP to TORCH
  • 5. Practical Operations of War
  • Part Three: McNaughton as Military Commander and Trainer
  • 6. The Difficulty of Training in 1940
  • 7. The Politics of Training
  • 8. Enter Montgomery
  • 9. Exercise SPARTAN
  • 10. The Long Shadow of SPARTAN
  • Part Four: The End of an Idea
  • 11. The Sicily Incident
  • 12. Broken Dagger: A Corps in Italy
  • 13. The Final Months of McNaughton's Command
  • Epilogue
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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