Mike Bechthold

Vimy Ridge

A Canadian Reassessment
Herausgeber: Hayes, Geoffrey; Iarocci, Andrew

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5 Julian Byng and Leadership in the Canadian Corps Patrick Brennan In this chapter, Brennan also reminds us that the Canadians depended heavily on British staff officers, far more than Canadian historians have generally appreciated.

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• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781554582273
• ISBN-10: 155458227X
• Artikelnr.: 28887873

Autorenporträt

Mike Bechthold is a historian of the First and Second World Wars and an air power specialist. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and an M.A. & Honours B.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University. His most recent book is Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940-1941 (2017).

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Table of Contents for Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment, edited by
Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci, and Mike Bechthold
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Strategic Background
1. Vimy Ridge and the Battle of Arras: A British Perspective Gary
Sheffield
2. The End of the Beginning: The Canadian Corps in 1917 Paul Dickson
3. Vimy Ridge: The Battlefield before the Canadians, 1914-1916 Michael
Boire
Part II: The Battle for Vimy Ridge, 9-12 April 1917
4. "Old Wine in New Bottles": A Comparison of British and Canadian
Preparations for the Battle of Arras Mark Osborne Humphries
5. Julian Byng and Leadership in the Canadian Corps Patrick Brennan
6. The Gunners at Vimy: "We are Hammering Fritz to Pieces" Tim Cook
7. The Sappers of Vimy: Specialized Support for the Assault of 9 April 1917
Bill Rawling
8. The Canadian Army Medical Corps at Vimy Ridge Heather Moran
9. The 1st Canadian Division: An Operational Mosaic Andrew Iarocci
10. The 2nd Canadian Division: A "Most Spectacular Battle" David Campbell
11. The 3rd Canadian Division: Forgotten Victory Geoffrey Hayes
12. The 4th Canadian Division: "Trenches Should Never be Saved" Andrew
Godefroy
13. The German Army at Vimy Ridge Andrew Godefroy
14. In the Shadow of Vimy Ridge: The Canadian Corps in April and May 1917
Mike Bechthold
Part III: Aftermath and Memory
15. Battle Verse: Poetry and Nationalism after Vimy Ridge Jonathan Vance
16. "After the Agony in Stony Places" The Meaning and Significance of the
Vimy Monument Jacqueline Hucker
17. Safeguarding Sanctity: Canada and the Vimy Memorial during the Second
World War Serge Durflinger
18. Afterthoughts The Editors
Appendices
1. Order of Battle-Vimy Ridge
2. Lest We Forget: The Men of Vimy Ridge
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Contributors' Bios
Mike Bechthold is the managing editor of Canadian Military History and the
Communications Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and
Disarmament Studies. He teaches military history at Wilfrid Laurier
University.
Michael Boire is a graduate of Loyola College, Montréal, the Royal Military
College of Canada, Kingston and the Ecole supérieure de Guerre, Paris. He
teaches Canadian military history at the Royal Military College.
Patrick Brennan earned his PhD from York University. He is an associate
professor in the history department at the University of Calgary, where he
is a fellow in the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. His research
interests focus on the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He is currently
working on a study of senior commanders in the Canadian Corps-Currie's and
Byng's Commanders: A Study in Military Leadership during the Great War.
David Campbell completed his graduate studies in history at the University
of Calgary where he specialized in military history. His major area of
research is the social and operational history of the Canadian
Expeditionary Force during the First World War. He currently resides and
teaches in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Tim Cook is the First World War historian at the Canadian War Museum, where
he recently curated the South African and First World War permanent
gallery. His first book, No Place To Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas
Warfare in the First World War (2000) won the C.P. Stacey award for the
best book on military history published in Canada or written by a Canadian
that year. His second book, Clio's Warriors: Canadian Historians and the
Writing of the World Wars was published in 2006.
Paul Dickson is a strategic analyst and military historian with the Centre
for Operational Research and Analysis at the Department of National
Defence. He has published articles on leadership and operations during the
First and Second World Wars in, among others, The Journal of Military
History, War and Society and Canadian Military History.
Serge Durflinger is an assistant professor in the Department of History at
the University of Ottawa. From 1998 to 2003 he served as an historian at
the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. He is the author of Lest We Forget, a
history of the Last Post Fund of Canada and Fighting From Home (2006) an
exploration of the Second World War's impact on the bilingual community of
Verdun, Québec.
Andrew B. Godefroy is a strategic analyst working with the Canadian Army's
Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts, as well as Director of the Fort
Frontenac Army Library and Managing Editor of The Canadian Army Journal and
The Canadian Army Reading List. A military field engineer officer of
sixteen years service, he is currently completing a study of the conceptual
and doctrinal evolution of the Canadian Army after the Korean War.
Geoffrey Hayes is an associate professor of history at the University of
Waterloo. He is the author of The Lincs: A History of the Lincoln and
Welland Regiment at War, 1939-1945 (1986) and Waterloo County: An
Illustrated History (1997). He is also the associate director of the
Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies at Wilfrid
Laurier University. Hayes has led many Canadians on tours of the
battlefields of Northwest Europe, including Vimy Ridge.
Jacqueline Hucker holds a BA in art history from Queen's University and an
MA in Canadian Studies from Carleton University, with a concentration on
First World War art. She is the manager of the Federal Heritage Buildings
Review Office, Parks Canada, and is also the historian on the conservation
team that restored the Vimy Monument in France.
Mark Osborne Humphries is a doctoral candidate and the Sir John A.
Macdonald Graduate Fellow in Canadian History at the University of Western
Ontario. His dissertation is titled "The Horror at Home: Canadians and the
Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919." He has also completed a study of
shell shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.
Andrew Iarocci recently completed an R.B. Byers Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship with the Department of National Defence and now teaches military
history at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Western
Ontario. His publications include Canadian Forces Base Petawawa: The First
Century (2005). Currently he is writing a monograph on the overseas
training and combat operations of 1st Canadian Division during 1914-15.
Iarocci has directed several tours of Canada's First and Second World War
battlefields in recent years.
Heather Moran is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid
Laurier University. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University
of Western Ontario studying the Canadian medical services during the First
World War.
Bill Rawling, a graduate of the University of Ottawa and the University of
Toronto, is the author of Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the
Canadian Corps, 1914-1918; Technicians of Battle: Canadian Field
Engineering from Pre-Confederation to the Post-Cold War Era, and Canada's
Sappers: A History of 3rd Field Engineer Squadron. He is currently a
researcher for the Department of National Defence in Ottawa.
Gary Sheffield is a professor of war studies at the University of
Birmingham, in the United Kingdom. He previously taught modern history at
King&38217;s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff
College, Shrivenham. His most recent book, co-edited with John Bourne, is
Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918 (2005). Sheffield is
working on a biography of Douglas Haig and a book on the experience of the
British soldier in the Second World War.
Jonathan Vance holds the Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture in
the Department of History at The University of Western Ontario. He is the
author of numerous books and articles, including Death So Noble: Memory,
Meaning, and the First World War (1997), High Flight: Aviation and the
Canadian Imagination (2002), A Gallant Company: The True Story of The Great
Escape (2003), and Building Canada: People and Projects that Shaped the
Nation (2006).