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Montreal at War, 1914–1918

Author : Terry Copp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487541554
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Montreal at War, 1914–1918 written by Terry Copp and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montreal at War tells the story of how citizens in Canada's largest city responded to the challenges of the First World War. Drawing from newspapers, journals, government reports, and archival records, Terry Copp - one of Canada's leading military historians - raises important questions about how the Canadian war experience has been interpreted, and the ways in which hindsight has privileged some voices over others. Painting a picture of life in Montreal during the first years of the twentieth century, Montreal at War addresses responses to the outbreak of war in Europe and the process of raising an army for service overseas. It details the shock of intense combat and heavy casualties, studies the mobilization of volunteers, and follows the experience of battalions from Montreal to the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The crisis of conscription is described in the context of national and local developments, and great attention is paid to the experiences of both the army overseas and civilians at home. Challenging long-held assumptions, Montreal at War aims to understand the war experience as it unfolded, approaching history from the perspective of those who lived through it.

Canada's Great War, 1914-1918

Author : Brian Douglas Tennyson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810888602
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Canada's Great War, 1914-1918 written by Brian Douglas Tennyson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada’s Great War, 1914-1918: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation describes the major role that Canada played in helping the British Empire win the greatest war in history—and, somewhat surprisingly, resulted in Canada’s closer integration not with the British Empire but with its continental neighbor, the United States. When Britain declared war against Germany and Austria-Hungary in August 1914, Canada was automatically committed as well because of its status as a Dominion in the British Empire. Despite not having a say in the matter, most Canadians enthusiastically embraced the war effort in order to defend the Empire and its values. In Canada’s Great War, 1914-1918, historian Brian Douglas Tennyson argues that Canada’s participation in the war weakened its relationship with Britain by stimulating a greater sense of Canadian identity, while at the same time bringing it much closer to the United States, especially after the latter entered the war. Their wartime cooperation strengthened their relationship, which had been delicate and often strained in the nineteenth century. This was reflected in the greater integration of their economies and the greater acceptance in Canada of American cultural products such as books, magazines, radio broadcasting and movies, and was symbolized by the astonishing American response to the Halifax explosion in December 1917. By the end of the war, Canadians were emerging as a North American people, no longer fearing close ties to the United States, even as they maintained their ties to the British Commonwealth. Canada’s Great War, 1914-1918 will interest not only Canadians unaware of how greatly their nation’s participation in the First World War reshaped its relationship with Britain and the United States, but also Americans unacquainted with the magnitude of Canada’s involvement in the war and how that contribution drew the two nations closer together.

The Canadian Corps in World War I

Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782008454
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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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.

Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919

Author : G.W.L. Nicholson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773597905
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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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.

Canadians at War, 1914-1918

Author : Donald M. Santor
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall of Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780131134560
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Canadians at War, 1914-1918 written by Donald M. Santor and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall of Canada. This book was released on 1978 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret History of Soldiers

Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735235279
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Soldiers written by Tim Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and chemical agents. In The Secret History of Soldiers, Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian, examines how those who survived trench warfare on the Western Front found entertainment, solace, relief, and distraction from the relentless slaughter. These tales come from the soldiers themselves, mined from the letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral accounts of more than five hundred combatants. Rare examples of trench art, postcards, and even song sheets offer insight into a hidden society that was often irreverent, raunchy, and anti-authoritarian. Believing in supernatural stories was another way soldiers shielded themselves from the horror. While novels and poetry often depict the soldiers of the Great War as mere victims, this new history shows how the soldiers pushed back against the grim war, refusing to be broken in the mincing machine of the Western Front. The violence of war is always present, but Cook reveals the gallows humour the soldiers employed to get through it. Over the years, both writers and historians have overlooked this aspect of the men's lives. The fighting at the front was devastating, but behind the battle lines, another layer of life existed, one that included songs, skits, art, and soldier-produced newspapers. With his trademark narrative abilities and an unerring eye for the telling human detail, Cook has created another landmark history of Canadian military life as he reveals the secrets of how soldiers survived the carnage of the Western Front.

The History of Munitions Supply in Canada, 1914-1918

Author : David Carnegie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The History of Munitions Supply in Canada, 1914-1918 written by David Carnegie and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

At the Sharp End Volume One

Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073523311X
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book At the Sharp End Volume One written by Tim Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of Canadians in WWI in forty years, and already hailed as the definitive work on Canadians in the Great War, At the Sharp End covers the harrowing early battles of 1914—16. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands, died before the generals and soldiers found a way to break the terrible stalemate of the front. Based on eyewitness accounts detailed in the letters of ordinary soldiers, Cook describes the horrible struggle, first to survive in battle, and then to drive the Germans back. At the Sharp End provides both an intimate look at the Canadian men in the trenches and an authoritative account of the slow evolution in tactics, weapons, and advancement. Featuring never-before-published photographs, letters, diaries, and maps, this recounting of the Great War through the soldiers' eyes is moving, engaging, and thoroughly engrossing.

Africa and the First World War

Author : Melvin E Page
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349188271
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Africa and the First World War written by Melvin E Page and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-09-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canadian War Posters

Author : Marc H. Choko
Publisher : Laval, Quebec : Éditions du Méridien
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian War Posters written by Marc H. Choko and published by Laval, Quebec : Éditions du Méridien. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic view of Canadian history during the First and Second World Wars.

For King and Kanata

Author : Timothy Charles Winegard
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887554180
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book For King and Kanata written by Timothy Charles Winegard and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front. When the call to arms was heard at the outbreak of the First World War, Canada's First Nations pledged their men and money to the Crown to honour their long-standing tradition of forming military alliances with Europeans during times of war, and as a means of resisting cultural assimilation and attaining equality through shared service and sacrifice. Initially, the Canadian government rejected these offers based on the belief that status Indians were unsuited to modern, civilized warfare. But in 1915, Britain intervened and demanded Canada actively recruit Indian soldiers to meet the incessant need for manpower. Thus began the complicated relationships between the Imperial Colonial and War Offices, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the Ministry of Militia that would affect every aspect of the war experience for Canada's Aboriginal soldiers. In his groundbreaking new book, For King and Kanata, Timothy C. Winegard reveals how national and international forces directly influenced the more than 4,000 status Indians who voluntarily served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force between 1914 and 1919--a per capita percentage equal to that of Euro-Canadians--and how subsequent administrative policies profoundly affected their experiences at home, on the battlefield, and as returning veterans."--Publisher's website.

Filling the Ranks

Author : Richard Holt
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773549102
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Filling the Ranks written by Richard Holt and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manpower is the lifeblood of armies regardless of time or place. In the First World War, much of Canada’s military effort went toward sustaining the Canadian Expeditionary Force, especially in France and Belgium. The job was not easy. The government and Department of Militia and Defence were tasked with recruiting and training hundreds of thousands of men, shipping them to England, and creating organizations on the continent meant to forward these men to their units. The first book to explore the issue of manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Filling the Ranks examines the administrative and organizational changes that fostered efficiency and sustained the army. Richard Holt describes national civilian and military recruitment policies and criteria both inside and outside of Canada; efforts to recruit women, convicts, and members of First Nations, African Canadian, Asian, and Slavic communities; the conduct of entry-level training; and the development of a coherent reinforcement structure. Canada’s ability to fill the ranks with trained soldiers ultimately helped make the Corps an elite formation within the British Expeditionary Force. Based on extensive research in British and Canadian archives, Filling the Ranks provides a wealth of new information on Canada"s role in the Great War.

World War I

Author : Douglas Baldwin
Publisher : Weigl Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781553887195
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book World War I written by Douglas Baldwin and published by Weigl Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I was a defining event in Canadian history. World War I recounts Canada's involvement in the war that engulfed the world, including incidents leading to the war, key events and people, and the aftermath. The Canada at War series explores the role Canadians have played in armed conflicts around the world. Each book in the series looks at the causes and outcomes of a different conflict as well as the Canada's involvement in the event.

World War Women

Author : Stacey Barker
Publisher : Souvenir Catalogue Series, 13
ISBN 13 : 9780660203119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book World War Women written by Stacey Barker and published by Souvenir Catalogue Series, 13. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the incredible determination, resilience and sacrifice of Canadian women during the First and Second World Wars. War brought enormous changes to Canadian women's lives. They adapted to the conditions of total war in practical terms ? working, volunteering and serving in uniform. In the wake of war's inevitable tragedies, they also faced other challenges. The contributions made by women to the Canadian war efforts were crucial, and their experiences forged a new understanding of women's capabilities both within themselves and within society. Through photographs, artwork, diaries and mementoes, including a Memorial Cross presented to the mother of a fallen soldier, this souvenir catalogue reveals deeply personal stories of life in service and on the home front.

Forged in Fire

Author : Jeffrey David Noakes
Publisher : Souvenir Catalogue Series, 17
ISBN 13 : 9781988282008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Forged in Fire written by Jeffrey David Noakes and published by Souvenir Catalogue Series, 17. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War transformed Canada and its place in the world. The outbreak of war in September 1939, following a decade of economic crisis and the rise of aggressive dictatorships, drew Canada into a second global conflict. Canadians ultimately served in virtually every theatre of operations, while the home front mobilized to support the war effort. This souvenir catalogue highlights the Museum's Second World War Gallery. From the powerful to the intimate, artifacts that have borne witness to the conflict ? including artwork, weapons, uniforms, archival documents and photographs ? help show how the war affected Canada and Canadians.

Deadly Skies

Author : John Maker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780660031439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Deadly Skies written by John Maker and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond the dogfights and immerse yourself in the lives of six people, from both sides of the conflict, who experienced the first air war. Join them as they train to fly, gather intelligence, fight aerial battles and drop bombs. This fully illustrated graphic novel follows Marjorie Stinson, a teenaged American flying instructor; James Moses, a Canadian observer and warrior of the Six Nations Confederacy; Maurice Arondel, an expert French balloonist; Captain Heinrich Mathy, a German Zeppelin commander; Manfred von Richthofen, the famous Red Baron; and Eric Ohman, a Canadian fighter pilot. Their captivating stories provide insight into the history and consequences of the first air war.

We Lead, Others Follow

Author : Kenneth Radley
Publisher : St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book We Lead, Others Follow written by Kenneth Radley and published by St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) was the first division ever put in the field by the Dominion of Canada. In this book, detailed studies are made of training methods, unit organization, equipment, staff duties and procedures, and personnel problems. There are copious references to research documents and an extensive bibliography for each chapter. The primary focus of this study is the infantry, examining the work of individual units and their commanders, noting the improvement in staff duties as the war progressed. It also examines the substantial British contribution to Canadian skill at arms. Staff officers were with few exceptions British, since Canada had almost no trained staff officers at the beginning of the war, and only a few even at the end. The final chapters show how all the training, staff work, organizational changes and team work came together in 1918 during the battle of Amiens, Canal du Nord and the final offensive.