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Author :John Kristjan Marteinson Publisher :Published for the Governor General's Horse Guards Foundation by Robin Brass Studio ISBN 13 :9781896941288 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (412 download)
Book Synopsis The Governor General's Horse Guards by : John Kristjan Marteinson
Download or read book The Governor General's Horse Guards written by John Kristjan Marteinson and published by Published for the Governor General's Horse Guards Foundation by Robin Brass Studio. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Soldiers' General by : Douglas E. Delaney
Download or read book The Soldiers' General written by Douglas E. Delaney and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-doubt so plagued him that he suffered a nervous breakdown even before fighting his first combat action. But, by the end of the Second World War, Bert Hoffmeister had exorcised his anxieties, risen from Captain to Major-General, and won more awards than any Canadian officer in the war. Fighting from the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 to the final victory in Europe in May 1945, this native Vancouverite earned a reputation as a fearless commander on the battlefield – one who led from the front, one well loved by those he led. How did he do it? The Soldiers’ General explains, in eloquent and accessible prose, how Hoffmeister conducted his business as a military commander. With an astute analytical eye, Delaney carefully dissects Hoffmeister’s numerous battles to reveal how he managed and how he led, how he directed and how he inspired. An exemplary leader, Hoffmeister stood out among his contemporaries, not so much for his technical ability to move the chess pieces well; there were plenty who could do that. Rather, Bert Hoffmeister was exceptional for his ability to get the chess pieces to move themselves.
Book Synopsis Historical Records of the Governor-General's Body Guard by : Vernon Charles Paget Hodson
Download or read book Historical Records of the Governor-General's Body Guard written by Vernon Charles Paget Hodson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Weight of Command by : J.L. Granatstein
Download or read book The Weight of Command written by J.L. Granatstein and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-quarters of a century after the Second World War, almost all the participants are gone. This book contains interviews with and about the Canadian who led the troops during that war. Edited and introduced by one of the foremost military historians of our time, this carefully curated collection brings to life the generals and their wartime experiences. The interviews are based on lengthy conversations that J.L. Granatstein had with the surviving generals, their key staff officers, fighters under their command, and their families. Generals McNaughton, Crerar, Simonds, Foulkes, and Burns are among those discussed. The content is revealing and conversations frank. Peers and subordinates alike scrutinize key commanders of the war, sometimes offering praise but often passing harsh judgment. We learn of their failings and successes – and of the heavy weight of command borne by all.
Book Synopsis The Governor General's Horse Guards, 1939-1945 by : Canadian Military Journal
Download or read book The Governor General's Horse Guards, 1939-1945 written by Canadian Military Journal and published by Toronto, Montreal [1954]. This book was released on 1954 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The River Battles written by Mark Zuehlke and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadians called it the Promised Land. In late September 1944, the Emilia-Romagna plain before I Canadian Corps stretched to the far horizon—a deceptively wide-open space where the tanks could run free. Throughout British Eighth Army, hopes ran high that once it entered the plain, the Germans could be driven from Italy. As soon as the advance began, however, the plain’s true nature was revealed: the land was criss-crossed by rivers, canals and drainage ditches over which all bridges had been demolished. With higher command urging haste, the Canadians entered a long and nightmarish series of battles to win crossings over each waterway, whose high banks provided the Germans with perfect defensive positions. Early fall rains caused rivers to spill their banks and transformed the countryside into the worst quagmire the soldiers had ever seen. More than five months of battle followed, with weeks of hard fighting required to advance from one river to the next. Each month, conditions only worsened, and the casualty rates rose appallingly. As their comrades fell one by one, most soldiers sought merely to survive. Doing that much required every measure of stamina, courage and fighting skill they possessed. The fifth and final Canadian Battle Series volume set in Italy, The River Battles tells the story of this campaign’s last and hardest months. In riveting detail and with his trademark “you-are-there” style, Mark Zuehlke shines a light on this forgotten chapter of Canada’s World War II experience.
Book Synopsis Cavalry from Hoof to Track by : Roman Jarymowycz
Download or read book Cavalry from Hoof to Track written by Roman Jarymowycz and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of cavalry from horses to tanks and helicopters.
Book Synopsis The duties of the general staff, tr. by W.A.H. Hare. Meckel by : Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff
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Download or read book The Liri Valley written by Mark Zuehlke and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second instalment in military historian Mark Zuehlke’s compelling World War II tales of Canadians overcoming insurmountable odds in Italy. For the allied armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944, Rome was the prize that could only be won through one of the greatest offensives of the war. Following upon his book about the battle of Ortona, Mark Zuehlke returns to the Mediterranean theatre of World War II with this gripping tribute to the valiant Canadians who opened the way for the Allies to take Rome. The Liri Valley is testament to the bravery of these Canadians, like the badly wounded Captain Pierre Potvin, who survived more than thirty hours alone in the hell of no man’s land. This book, like the battle it records, will live long in readers’ memories.
Download or read book The Gothic Line written by Mark Zuehlke and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an armor-toothed belt across Italy’s upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified and fiercely defended position the German army had yet thrown in the path of the Allied forces. On August 25, 1944, it fell to I Canadian Corps to spearhead the famed Eighth Army’s major offensive, intended to rip through it. The 1st Infantry and 5th Armored Divisions advanced into a killing ground covered by thousands of machine-gun, antitank gun positions, and pillboxes expertly sited behind minefields and dense thickets of barbed wire. Never had the Germans in Italy brought so much artillery to bear or deployed such a great number of tanks. For 28 days, the battle raged as the Allied troops slugged an ever deeper hole into the German defences. The Metauro River, the Foglia River, Point 204, Tomba Di Pesaro, Coriano Ridge, San Martino, and San Fortunato became place names seared into the memories of those who fought there. They fought in a dust-choked land under a searing sun which by battle's end was reduced to a guagmire by rain. But they prevailed and on September 22 won the ground overlooking the Po River Valley, opening the way for the next phase of the Allied advance.
Book Synopsis Inventory of the Military Documents in the Canadian Archives by : Public Archives of Canada
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Book Synopsis Hell and High Water by : Lance Goddard
Download or read book Hell and High Water written by Lance Goddard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it has been overshadowed by other events of the Second World War, Canada’s role in the Italian Campaign, from 1943 to 1945, was significant. Canadian forces played a major role in this campaign, whose goal was to open a second front in order to ease the pressure on Russian forces in the east. Canada fought under British command alongside British and American units, but our soldiers saw some of the fiercest fighting and achieved glory many times, including at the Battle of Ortona, one of Canada’s greatest military accomplishments. The pictorial history examines the Italian Campaign from the view of the soldiers serving there. Regiments represented in interviews in this book include the Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry, the Perth Regiment, the Governor-General’s Horse Guards, the Ontario Regiment, the 48th Highlanders, the Calgary Regiment, the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and the Royal Canadian Navy.
Book Synopsis A War Guest in Canada by : W.A.B. Douglas
Download or read book A War Guest in Canada written by W.A.B. Douglas and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as “war guests.” This book collects the letters of one such war guest, young W.A.B (Alec) Douglas, who wrote from his wartime home in Toronto to his mother back home in London. Alec wrote home every week, although sometimes he forgot to post his letters, and they were delayed, and some letters did not get through. Occasionally his godmother and host, Mavis Fry, would add comments and write her own more detailed letters. Also included are letters from Lillian Kingston, who brought Alec to North America in 1940. This is a story of exposure, at an impressionable age, to ocean passage in wartime, the sights and sounds of New York, the totally new and unfamiliar world of Canada, the wonderful excitement of passage home in a Woolworth Aircraft Carrier as a "Guest of the Admiralty," and his eventful return to a world he had left behind three years before. A War Guest in Canada includes a foreword by Cynthia Comacchio and an introduction by Roger Sarty.
Book Synopsis The Memoirs of Count Witte by : Sidney Harcave
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Book Synopsis Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia by : Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Download or read book Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia written by Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
