This revised guide to the Canadian battlefields of the First World War in France and Belgium offers a brief, critical history of the war and of Canadas contribution, drawing attention to the best recent books on the subject. It focuses on the Ypres Salient, Passchendaele, Vimy, and the Hundred Days battles and considers lesser-known battlefields as well. Battle maps, contemporary maps, photographs, war art, and tourist information enhance the reader experience. In addition to its new look, this second edition features new photographs, maps, and a more-detailed history section. A new Walking the Battlefields feature allows visitors to follow the path of Canadian troops as they fought at Ypres, the St. Eloi Craters, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and Bourlon Wood through detailed maps and unit-level text. The tour sections and references have also been updated to reflect recent developments in writing about the Great War in Canada. The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS) at Wilfrid Laurier University exists to foster research, education, and discussion of historical and contemporary conflict. This publication was generously funded by John and Pattie Cleghorn.
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Canadian Battlefields of the First World War: A Visitor's Guide
Éditeur : Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies
ISBN : 9781926804163
Dimensions :
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8.7" H
Terry Copp is the director emeritus of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies and a professor emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books and many articles on the Canadian role in the Second World War, including travel guides to the Canadian battlefields. Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy won the 2004 Distinguished Book Award for non-US history from the American Society for Military History. | Mark Osborne Humphries is Associate Professor; Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience at Wilfrid Laurier University and Director, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS). He is the author of numerous publications, including The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada (2013). |Nick Lachance is a student at Wilfrid Laurier University and a Research Assistant at LCMSDS. Many of his photos appear in this guide. Lachance’s primary responsibility was to use modern satellite images from Google Earth and rework them into the 59 historical and tour maps inside the guide.
|Caitlin McWilliams is an MA (History) graduate from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Research Associate at LCMSDS. Drawing on her educational and battlefield touring experience as well as her photography talent, McWilliams scouted, wrote, edited and/or added photographs to parts of every tour section in the guide. |Matt Symes has worked and taught extensively on the history of war and memory and is co-author of five battlefield guidebooks, including Canadian Battlefields 1915–1918: A Visitor’s Guide. Symes was co-editor (with Geoffrey Hayes and Mike Bechthold) of Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp.
Professor Terry Copp is synonymous with countless highly regarded publications on Canada's involvement in our last century at war. The resources available to him as founder of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies and the assistance from team members on this project, Matt Symes and Nick Lachance, has produced Canada's latest and possibly most valuable general guide to the Canadian battlefields of the Western Front.... Matt Symes and Nick Lachance have done an admirable job in providing photos of many of these sites as they sit today and the navigation routes through each region are well put together, an obvious sign of painstaking research and attention to detail.... Armed with the knowledge of Canada's first involvement in Flanders to the Last Hundred Days, combined with the assembled modern day information of GPS, Google Maps, suggested regional lodgings, detailed driving directions, website references and contacts, photographs from today and yesterday, Canadian Battlefields 1915–1918 has succeeded in moving the battlefield guide to a standalone level, a remarkable feat in a market saturated with guidebooks for the modern day battlefield explorer. - Glenn Kerr, The Maple Leaf, Autumn 2012, 2012 December
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