Shoestring Soldiers : : The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915 / / Andrew Iarocci.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Soldiering and Canadian Soldiers: The State of the Art at the Outbreak of War
- 2. Training for War: The Salisbury Plain Camps
- 3. Across the Channel: Apprenticing for War
- 4. Ypres: The Salient and the Armies
- 5. 22 April 1915: Green Clouds
- 6. 23 April 1915: Holding Back the Tide
- 7. 24 April 1915: The Breaking Point
- 8. 25-26 April 1915: The Canadian Denouement
- 9. On the Offensive: The La Bassée Front, May-June 1915
- 10. Trench Warfare: The Ploegsteert-Messines Front
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index