Author: Horace Cecil Singer
Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
For more than six long years, from late 1931 to 1938, Major Horace Cecil Singer, late of the Royal Canadian Artillery, patiently labored to write this outstanding account of the 31st Battalion's fighting record in World War One. Armed with little more than pencil and pad of paper, and assisted intermittently by two stenographers operating a manually-operated Number 5 Underwood typewriter, Major Singer travelled extensively at his own cost to flesh out the records, and to secure the information he required for the text from numerous sources in western Canada, from the Department of National Defence in Ottawa, and from other sources in London, England. Year by year, the text was slowly compiled, edited, typed -- and then read and reviewed for final edit again by A.A. Peebles, of Lethbridge, Alberta -- before being collated and re-typed as a final manuscript. The original book is reproduced in its entirety, with additions of comment, pictures, and minor alternations.
History of the 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion (1914-1919) C.E.F.
Author: Horace Cecil Singer
Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
For more than six long years, from late 1931 to 1938, Major Horace Cecil Singer, late of the Royal Canadian Artillery, patiently labored to write this outstanding account of the 31st Battalion's fighting record in World War One. Armed with little more than pencil and pad of paper, and assisted intermittently by two stenographers operating a manually-operated Number 5 Underwood typewriter, Major Singer travelled extensively at his own cost to flesh out the records, and to secure the information he required for the text from numerous sources in western Canada, from the Department of National Defence in Ottawa, and from other sources in London, England. Year by year, the text was slowly compiled, edited, typed -- and then read and reviewed for final edit again by A.A. Peebles, of Lethbridge, Alberta -- before being collated and re-typed as a final manuscript. The original book is reproduced in its entirety, with additions of comment, pictures, and minor alternations.
Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
For more than six long years, from late 1931 to 1938, Major Horace Cecil Singer, late of the Royal Canadian Artillery, patiently labored to write this outstanding account of the 31st Battalion's fighting record in World War One. Armed with little more than pencil and pad of paper, and assisted intermittently by two stenographers operating a manually-operated Number 5 Underwood typewriter, Major Singer travelled extensively at his own cost to flesh out the records, and to secure the information he required for the text from numerous sources in western Canada, from the Department of National Defence in Ottawa, and from other sources in London, England. Year by year, the text was slowly compiled, edited, typed -- and then read and reviewed for final edit again by A.A. Peebles, of Lethbridge, Alberta -- before being collated and re-typed as a final manuscript. The original book is reproduced in its entirety, with additions of comment, pictures, and minor alternations.
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
Author: G.W.L. Nicholson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773597905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
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.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773597905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
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.
The Canadian Experience of the Great War
Author: Brian Douglas Tennyson
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810886804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Although the United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort—400,000 of them overseas—out of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000 were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a pivotal turning point in the history of the modern world, and its mindless slaughter shattered a generation and destroyed seemingly secure values. The literature that the First World War generated, and continues to generate so many years later, is enormous and addresses a multitude of cultural and social matters in the history of Canada and the war itself. Although many scholars have brilliantly analyzed the literature of the war, little has been done to catalog the writings of ordinary participants: men and women who served in the war and wrote about it but are not included among well-known poets, novelists, and memoirists. Indeed, we don’t even know how many titles these people published, nor do we know how many more titles were added later by relatives who considered the recollections or collected letters worthy of publication. Brian Douglas Tennyson’s The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs is the first attempt to identify all of the published accounts of First World War experiences by Canadian veterans.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810886804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Although the United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort—400,000 of them overseas—out of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000 were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a pivotal turning point in the history of the modern world, and its mindless slaughter shattered a generation and destroyed seemingly secure values. The literature that the First World War generated, and continues to generate so many years later, is enormous and addresses a multitude of cultural and social matters in the history of Canada and the war itself. Although many scholars have brilliantly analyzed the literature of the war, little has been done to catalog the writings of ordinary participants: men and women who served in the war and wrote about it but are not included among well-known poets, novelists, and memoirists. Indeed, we don’t even know how many titles these people published, nor do we know how many more titles were added later by relatives who considered the recollections or collected letters worthy of publication. Brian Douglas Tennyson’s The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs is the first attempt to identify all of the published accounts of First World War experiences by Canadian veterans.
It Can't Last Forever
Author: David Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771122368
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
This book presents the first complete history of the 19th Battalion and its role in the Canadian Corps? operations in the First World War. Based on extensive archival research and featuring vivid personal accounts, it analyzes the unit's organization, internal dynamics, and evolution, from mobilization in 1914 to its return to Canada in 1919.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771122368
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
This book presents the first complete history of the 19th Battalion and its role in the Canadian Corps? operations in the First World War. Based on extensive archival research and featuring vivid personal accounts, it analyzes the unit's organization, internal dynamics, and evolution, from mobilization in 1914 to its return to Canada in 1919.
From Classroom to Battlefield
Author: Barry Gough
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1772030058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Canadian historian Barry Gough describes how five hundred youth who had been educated at Victoria High School in British Columbia went to war and were forever changed by the experience.
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1772030058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Canadian historian Barry Gough describes how five hundred youth who had been educated at Victoria High School in British Columbia went to war and were forever changed by the experience.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
Author: John George Adami
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Royal Montreal Regiment, 14th Battalion, C.E.F., 1914-1925
Author: Robert Collier Fetherstonhaugh
Publisher: Gazette Print. Company
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher: Gazette Print. Company
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The 116th Battalion in France
Author: E. P. S. Allen
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The 116th Battalion in France" by E. P. S. Allen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The 116th Battalion in France" by E. P. S. Allen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Surviving Trench Warfare
Author: Bill Rawling
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144262678X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144262678X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Vimy Ridge
Author: Geoffrey Hayes
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554580951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
On the morning of April 9, 1917, troops of the Canadian Corps under General Julian Byng attacked the formidable German defences of Vimy Ridge. Since then, generations of Canadians have shared a deep emotional attachment to the battle, inspired partly by the spectacular memorial on the battlefield. Although the event is considered central in Canadian military history, most people know very little about what happened during that memorable Easter in northern France. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment draws on the work of a new generation of scholars who explore the battle from three perspectives. The first assesses the Canadian Corps within the wider context of the Western Front in 1917. The second explores Canadian leadership, training, and preparations and details the story of each of the four Canadian divisions. The final section concentrates on the commemoration of Vimy Ridge, both for contemporaries and later generations of Canadians. This long-overdue collection, based on original research, replaces mythology with new perspectives, new details, and a new understanding of the men who fought and died for the remarkable achievement that was the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Co-published with the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554580951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
On the morning of April 9, 1917, troops of the Canadian Corps under General Julian Byng attacked the formidable German defences of Vimy Ridge. Since then, generations of Canadians have shared a deep emotional attachment to the battle, inspired partly by the spectacular memorial on the battlefield. Although the event is considered central in Canadian military history, most people know very little about what happened during that memorable Easter in northern France. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment draws on the work of a new generation of scholars who explore the battle from three perspectives. The first assesses the Canadian Corps within the wider context of the Western Front in 1917. The second explores Canadian leadership, training, and preparations and details the story of each of the four Canadian divisions. The final section concentrates on the commemoration of Vimy Ridge, both for contemporaries and later generations of Canadians. This long-overdue collection, based on original research, replaces mythology with new perspectives, new details, and a new understanding of the men who fought and died for the remarkable achievement that was the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Co-published with the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies