Shoestring soldiers
Subtitle: the 1st Canadian Division at war, 1914-1915
By: Andrew Iarocci.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780802098221
Subjects: Canada. -- Canadian Army. -- Canadian Division, 1st; Canada. -- Armée canadienne. -- Canadian Division, 1st -- Histoire; World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Canada; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Histoire des unités -- Canada; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Récits personnels canadiens
Genres: Récits personnels canadiens
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. [333]-345) and index.
Table of contents: title: Soldiering and Canadian soldiers : the state of the art at the outbreak of war; title: Training for war : the Salisbury Plain camps; title: Across the Channel : apprenticing for war; title: Ypres : the salient and the armies; title: 22 April 1915 : Green clouds; title: 23 April 1915 : holding back the tide; title: 24 April 1915 : the breaking point; title: 25-26 April 1915 : the Canadian denouement; title: On the offensive : the La Bassée front, May-June 1915; title: Trench warfare : the Ploegsteert-Messines front.