Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Abbreviations xvi
7. Introduction: Slackers, Shirkers, and Malingerers 3
8. “The Blood Dimmed Tide” 12
9. “Canada’s New Fighting Forces” 34
10. The First Canadian Conscripts in Combat 52
11. Conspicuous Gallantry at Amiens 71
12. “Draft Men” and the Battle of the Scarpe, 1918 89
13. The Hardest Single Battle: The Drocourt-Quéant Line 106
14. The Canal du Nord and the Brotherhood of Arms 120
15. A Dangerous Advance Continued 142
16. Cambrai and Iwuy: “For a time hell was loose” 164
17. Honour and Duty in the Pursuit to Mons 183
18. The Equal of the Best 204
19. Conclusion: Evidence Has a Way of Dissolving Theories 220
20. Appendices 236
21. Notes 242
22. Bibliography 279
23. Index 291
24. Studies in Canadian Military History 313