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Author : Robert Edward Cockram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:270593066
Author : Robert Engen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773599086
Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in Arms addresses these questions in a groundbreaking study of the behaviour, morale, and motivations of Canadian infantrymen on the front lines of the Second World War. Canada’s army has long faced intense criticism for its combat performance during the war, and Canada’s official history has presented Canadian soldiers as deficient, inexperienced, and unprepared in comparison with their enemies. Questioning entrenched views, Robert Engen explores a trove of contemporaneous documents to create a remarkable new portrait of Canadians at war. Rather than the popular "band of brothers" image of soldier cohesion in battle, he finds staggering casualty rates and personnel turmoil that left Canadian infantrymen often working with and fighting beside men they hardly knew. Yet these strangers in arms continued to fight - effectively and in good spirits - against a tenacious and deadly enemy, triumphing in the face of heartrending loss and sacrifice. Challenging old narratives about the Canadian soldier and supported by cutting-edge empirical and qualitative research, Strangers in Arms crafts a new understanding of what happens at the sharp end of battle.
Author : Gerald W. L. Nicholson
Publisher : Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015027429532
Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550545579
In one furious week of fighting in December 1943, the First Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port at all costs. When the battle was over, the Canadians emerged victorious despite heavy losses. Over 2,500 Canadians died or were wounded there. Military historian Mark Zuehlke blends reminiscences of the Canadians, Germans, and Italians who were there together with a blow-by-blow account of the fighting to create a harrowing, ultimately hopeful rendering of one of World War II's defining moments.
Author : Bill McAndrew,Canada. Dept. of National Defence,Canada Communication Group. Publishing
Publisher : Art global
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020399361
Using first person accounts the author paints a compelling portrait of the nearly 93,000 Canadians who served in this campaign, more than a quarter of whom became casualties. These men and women faced inhospitable terrain, disease and a skilled enemy in a theater, which was largely overshadowed by D-Day. The battles fought by Canadian units fill their regimental colors with battle honors serving in this almost forgotten campaign that they derisively labeled "The Spaghetti League." With their bravery and perseverance, these D-Day Dodgers accomplished all that was asked of them, and wrote an honorable page in Canada's military history.
Author : Derek Grout
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459730946
Lt. Bert Sargent, who fought through the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days Offensive, captures what it was like for ordinary Canadians to be caught up in the Great War. Coming from a rank-and-file troop, Sargent’s clear-eyed account is a testament to the tenacity and accomplishments of a generation of soldiers.
Author : Arthur W. Gullachsen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774864848
An army may march on its stomach, but it needs more than hot dinners to fight. As Canadians battled through Northwest Europe in the Second World War, how did they reinforce their front lines? An Army of Never-Ending Strength provides detailed insight into the administration, structure, and troop and equipment levels of the First Canadian Army during 1944–45. Captain Arthur W. Gullachsen demonstrates the army’s effectiveness at reinforcing its combat units and draws a powerful conclusion. The administrative and logistical capability of the Canadian Army created a constant state of offensive strength, which made a marked contribution to eventual Allied victory.
Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926685779
On July 10, 1943, two great Allied armadas of over 2,000 ships readied to invade Sicily. This was Operation Husky, the first step toward winning a toehold in fascist-occupied Europe. Among the invaders were 20,000 Canadian troops serving in the First Canadian Infantry Division and First Canadian Tank Brigade — in their first combat experience. Over the next 28 days, the Allied troops carved a path through the rugged land, despite fierce German opposition. Drawing on firsthand accounts of veterans and official military records, Operation Husky offers a gripping, meticulous account of this seminal operation and the young men who fought, died, and survived it.
Author : Paul Chrystal,David Chrystal
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399088091
This is the story of the 1st Air Landing Light Regiment RA and its role in the Italian campaign and at the Battle of Arnhem. It is also the story of one of its soldiers: 14283058 Gunner Eric Wright Chrystal, father of the authors. Eric joined the army in September 1942 and, after training, joined the newly formed glider-borne regiment the following year. He first saw action in Italy in 1943, where he was seriously wounded. On 17 September 1944, two years to the day since he enlisted, he and the regiment were landed by glider near to Arnhem in the Netherlands. The authors recount set their father’s experiences in context by describing the formation of the unit and the many months of training in England. Their involvement in the Italian campaign, where Eric served with E Troop, 3 Battery, is then recounted, detailing their actions at Rionero, Foggia and Campobasso, where Eric was wounded. It then moves on to describe 1st Air Landing Light Regiment’s preparation for and involvement in Operation Market (the Airborne half of Market Garden). This very detailed account of the fighting highlights the regiment’s pivotal (but often neglected) role near Arnhem bridge. Here, after nine days of intense combat, Eric was among the many captured and held until the end of the war. The inclusion of Eric’s own eyewitness testimony lends a very personal touch to this excellent account of the regiment’s experience of combat and life in the PoW camps.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015653020
Author : Bruno Friesen
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461751427
Unique memoir of a Canadian serving in a German armored division What it was like to fight in a tank on the Eastern Front Details on the battlefield performance of the Panzer IV tank Six months before World War II erupted in 1939, Bruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father in hopes of a better life. Friesen was drafted into the Wehrmacht three years later and ended up in the 7th Panzer Division. Serving as a gunner in a Panzer IV tank and then a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer, Friesen experienced intense combat against the Soviets in Romania, Lithuania, and West Prussia.
Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781553656197
The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as “the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation. The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles during the last three months of the war, was bittersweet. A nation’s freedom was won and the war concluded, but these final hostilities cost Canada 6,298 casualties, including 1,482 dead. With his trademark “you are there” style that draws upon official records, veteran memories, and a keen understanding of the combat experience, Mark Zuehlke brings to life this concluding chapter in the story of Canada in World War II. May 4, 2010, will mark the 65th anniversary of the Netherlands’ liberation.
Author : Daniel George Dancocks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015029096974
Author : Angus Brown,Richard Howard Gimblett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1894673328
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UOM:39015079939305