J.L. Granatstein

Canada's Army

Waging War and Keeping the Peace, Third Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this revised and updated third edition, one of Canada's leading historians covers the history of the Canadian military to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 3rd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 173mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1240g
• ISBN-13: 9781487509484
• ISBN-10: 1487509480
• Artikelnr.: 61647485

Autorenporträt

By J.L. Granatstein

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Maps
1. The Militia Myth: Canadian Arms to Confederation
2. Making an Army: Beginnings
3. A Militia under Arms: Sam Hughes’s Army
4. Becoming Professional: Arthur Currie’s Army
5. Losing Professionalism: The Interwar Years
6. McNaughton’s Army: The Long Wait
7. Into Battle: Sicily and Italy, July 1943-June 1944
8. Into Battle: Northwest Europe and Italy, June 1944-May 1945
9. The Professional Army, 1945-1968
10. Professionalism under Siege, 1968-2001
11. Afghanistan and the Remaking of the Army
12. Conclusion
Notes
A Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Illustration Credits
Index