LEADER 03763nam 2200649 450 001 9910456793203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8913-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442689138 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019354 035 $a(OCoLC)647920909 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382293 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478814 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11320448 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478814 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10453346 035 $a(PQKB)10503139 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430857 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224407 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268504 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672674 035 $a(DE-B1597)465327 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954767 035 $a(OCoLC)944176590 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442689138 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672674 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258330 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019354 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShoestring soldiers $ethe 1st Canadian Division at war, 1914-1915 /$fAndrew Iarocci 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$d©2008 215 $a1 online resource (371 p.) 311 $a1-4875-2312-2 311 $a0-8020-9822-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Soldiering and Canadian Soldiers: The State of the Art at the Outbreak of War -- $t2. Training for War: The Salisbury Plain Camps -- $t3. Across the Channel: Apprenticing for War -- $t4. Ypres: The Salient and the Armies -- $t5. 22 April 1915: Green Clouds -- $t6. 23 April 1915: Holding Back the Tide -- $t7. 24 April 1915: The Breaking Point -- $t8. 25-26 April 1915: The Canadian Denouement -- $t9. On the Offensive: The La Bassée Front, May-June 1915 -- $t10. Trench Warfare: The Ploegsteert-Messines Front -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendices -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Great War was a pivotal experience for twentieth-century Canada. Shoestring Soldiers is the first scholarly study since 1938 to focus exclusively on Canada's initial overseas experience from late 1914 to the end of 1915.In this exciting new work, Andrew Iarocci challenges the dominant view that the 1st Canadian Division was poorly prepared for war in 1914, and less than effective during battles in 1915. He examines the first generations of men to serve overseas with the division: their training, leadership, morale, and combat operations from Salisbury Plain to the Ypres Salient, from the La Bassée Canal to Ploegsteert Wood. Iarocci contends that setbacks and high losses in battle were not so much the products of poor training and weak leadership as they were of inadequate material resources on the Western Front.Shoestring Soldiers incorporates a wealth of research material from official documents, soldiers' letters and diaries, and the battlefields themselves, surveyed extensively by the author. It marks an important contribution to the growing body of literature on Canada in the First World War. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xRegimental histories$zCanada 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns$zWestern Front 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xRegimental histories 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns 676 $a940.3/971 700 $aIarocci$b Andrew$f1976-$0960495 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456793203321 996 $aShoestring soldiers$92177396 997 $aUNINA