Canadians fighting the Great War: 2 Shock troops : 1917 - 1918
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| adam_text | Contents
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER
2
CHAPTER
3
CHAPTER
4
CHAPTER
5
CHAPTER
6
CHAPTER
7
CHAPTER
8
CHAPTER
9
CHAPTER
IO
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER
12
CHAPTER
ІЗ
Introduction: Shock Troops
1
Dying to Survive: The Battlefield Specialists on the
Western Front
11
From Amateurs to Professionals: Taking Control of the
Canadian War Effort
39
Raiding
—
the Laboratory of Battle: January-April
1917 55
Bungo and the Byng Boys: Preparing for the Vimy Battle
73
You live like pigs, and you kill like pigs : The
1st
Canadian
Division
93
Even if one man [is] left alive the objective must be taken
and held : The
2nd
Canadian Division
107
There before us, frightfully close, was the edge of hell :
The
3rd
Canadian Division
117
We will take it or never come back : The 4th Canadian
Division
129
A Victory Too Costly? The Bloodiest Battle in Canadian
Military History
141
Do your duty and fight to the finish : The Battles of Arleux
and Fresnoy, April 28-May
8, 1917 149
Good to be back in civilization : Blighty, the Temporary Respite
169
Sing me to sleep where bullets fall : Soldiers Culture
179
Camaraderie of the damned : Rewards, Combat Motivation,
and Sick Grins
197
CONTENTS
vii
CHAPTER
14
CHAPTER
15
CHAPTER l6
CHAPTER
17
CHAPTER
18
CHAPTER
19
CHAPTER
20
CHAPTER
21
CHAPTER
22
CHAPTER
23
CHAPTER
24
CHAPTER
25
CHAPTER
26
CHAPTER
27
CHAPTER
28
CHAPTER
29
CHAPTER
30
CHAPTER
31
CHAPTER
32
Supernatural Battlefields: The Dead and the Undead
on the Western Front
The Breaking Point: Collapse and Punishment
A Canadian Corps Commander: Sir Arthur Currie
Over the Top: August
15, 1917
Bleeding the Germans White: August
15-18, 1917
Swallowed up in the swirling murk of the battle :
Hill
70
and Lens, August
18-25, 1917
Called to Battle: Passchendaele, October
1917
I don t know how the human frame stood up :
October
26, 1917
Crawling out of the Mud: October
30, 1917
The devil himself couldn t have stopped us :
November
6-Ю, 1917
Educated largely by our own mistakes :
November 1917-March
1918
Backs to the Wall: The German Peace Offensive,
March-May
1918
Our nerves grew steadier; our tempers improved :
Training and Rest, Summer
1918
219
235
255
273
285
297
309
329
341
353
367
383
399
409
The Empire Strikes Back: The Battle of Amiens
The Eighth of the Eighth: The Battle of Amiens, August
8, 1918 419
I think this is the beginning of the end : August
9-14, 1918 437
Hard Pounding: Breaking the Arras Trench System
453
Hammer and tongs fighting : Set-Piece Battles
August 27-September
1, 1918 467
It was murder to move and suicide to stay put :
Breaking the
Drocourt-Quéant Line,
September
2, 1918 483
viii CONTENTS
chapter
33
Be bold
—
always bold : Preparing for the Battle of the Canal
du
Nord,
September
1918 501
chapter
34
Shock and Awe: Crashing the Canal
du
Nord,
September
27-28, 1918 509
chapter
35
Every time I look around for a familiar face, I find they
have gone : September 29-October
9, 1918 535
chapter
36
We steeled ourselves not to let down the Corps : The Battle of
Valenciennes, November
1-2, 1918 551
chapter
37
A bloody long way to Mons : November
11, 1918 569
chapter
38
I wanted to get the hell home : Demobilization,
1919 581
chapter
39
Life to me can never be the same : The Veterans Return
599
chapter
40
The Butcher s Bill
611
chapter
41
Whither the Great War?
1919
to the Present
621
Notes on Sources
649
Endnotes 653
Acknowledgments
713
Index
715
Credits
728
MAPS The Western Front
5
The Battle ofVimy Ridge: April
9
to
12, 1917 95
The Battle ofArleux: April
28, 1917 154
The Battle ofFresnoy: May
3, 1917 161
The Battle of Hill
70:
August
15
to
25, 1917 270
Flanders:
1917 311
The Battle ofPasschendaele Ridge: October
26
to November
10, 1917 324
The Battle of Amiens: August
8
to
14, 1918 414
The Battle of Arras: August
26
to September
5, 1918 457
The Battle of Canal
du
Nord:
September
27
to October
11, 1918 511
The Battle ofValenciennes: November
1
to
2, 1918 557
The Final Advance: October
12
to November
11, 1918 575
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