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1 online resource (371 pages)
ISBN:
9781442689138
Inhalt:
Shoestring Soldiers incorporates a wealth of research material from official documents, soldiers' letters and diaries, and the battlefields themselves, surveyed extensively by the author. It marks an important contribution to the growing body of literature on Canada in the First World War.
Inhalt:
Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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ISBN 9780802098221
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780802098221
Sprache:
Englisch
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