In the Company of Sisters: Canada`s Women in the War Zone, 1914-1919, Graves Dianne
Автор: Tennyson Brian Название: Canada`s Great War, 1914-1918: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation ISBN: 0810888599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810888593 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 125310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In Canada`s Great War, 1914-1918, historian Brian Douglas Tennyson argues that Canada`s enthusiasm had the ironic effect of bringing this British Dominion nation much closer to its southern neighbor, the United States, especially after the latter joined the fray.
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.
Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section of Canadians who served in the First World War. All Canadians are taught about Vimy Ridge, but that celebrated victory was just one battle among many to shape the country’s experience of the war. These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on war memorials provide a fresh and nuanced perspective on the complex legacy of the Great War in Canadian history.
Автор: Zuehlke Mark Название: The Liri Valley: Canada`s World War II Breakthrough to Rome ISBN: 1771622830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771622837 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 25700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
For the Allied armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944, Rome was the prize that could be won through one of the greatest offensives of the war. The Liri Valley was a long, flat corridor through miles of rugged mountains. At one end stood the formidable Monte Cassino, at the other, Rome. In May 1944, I Canadian Corps drove up this valley toward the Italian capital, facing the infamous "Hitler Line" a bastion of concrete bunkers fronted by wide swaths of tangled barbed wire, minefields, and "Tobruk" weapon pits. The ensuing battle resulted in Canada's single bloodiest day of the Italian Campaign. But the sacrifice of young Canadians during the twenty-four days of relentless combat it took to clear the valley paved the way for the Allies to take Rome.
Автор: Alan Hustak Название: Faith Under Fire: Fredrick G. Scott, Canadas Extraordinary Chaplain of the Great War ISBN: 155065375X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781550653755 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 25670.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: If Frederick Scott is remembered at all today, it is as minor Victorian poet or as the father of his illustrious son F. R. Scott. However, Frederick Scott was almost 55 years old and the pastor of St. Matthews Anglican Church in Quebec City when he volunteered to go overseas to serve as senior chaplain with the 1st Canadian Infantry Division during World War I. The depth of his faith was tested when he lost a son at the Battle of the Somme. Through a series of unpublished letters in the McCord Museum, author Alan Hustak tells the powerful and absorbing story of a man revered by the Canadian military for his remarkable ministry. His letters home from the front reveals how Scott discovered firsthand what fear really is, how to conquer it, and how to inspire others.
Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section of Canadians who served in the First World War. All Canadians are taught about Vimy Ridge, but that celebrated victory was just one battle among many to shape the country’s experience of the war. These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on war memorials provide a fresh and nuanced perspective on the complex legacy of the Great War in Canadian history.
Автор: Peter Kasurak Название: Canada`s Mechanized Infantry: The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012 ISBN: 0774862726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774862721 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 75200.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Canada’s Mechanized Infantry explores the development of the Canadian Army’s infantry after the First World War. Modern studies of technology and war have tended to focus on tanks and armour, but soldiers discovered that military success really depends on the combination of infantry, armour, and artillery. Peter Kasurak demonstrates how the Canadian army implemented successful infantry vehicles and doctrine to further its military goals during the Second World War until organizational constraints took hold in the postwar period. This book reveals the challenges of transforming the infantry into a twenty-first-century combat force by integrating soldiers, vehicles, weapons, and electronics.
Автор: Mark Zuehlke, Zuehlke Название: Ortona: canada`s epic world war ii battl ISBN: 1771622660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771622660 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 25700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A masterful retelling one of the major victories of Canadian troops over the German army`s elite division during WWII.
Автор: Granatstein J. L. Название: Canada`s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace, Third Edition ISBN: 1487509480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781487509484 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 43470.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: In this revised and updated third edition, one of Canada`s leading historians covers the history of the Canadian military to the present day.
Автор: MacKinnon Lachlan Название: Closing Sysco: Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada`s Steel City ISBN: 1487524021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781487524029 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 34230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Personal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical ramifications of industrial closure in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the former steel city of Atlantic Canada.
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