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Shoestring Soldiers - The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915 (Paperback)
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Shoestring Soldiers - The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915 (Paperback)
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The 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 Bassee 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.
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