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1 online resource : illustrations, colour maps, portraits |
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Contents -- Foreword -- A Word from the Colonel Commandant of the Canadian Artillery -- A Word from the Senior Serving Gunner of the Canadian Artillery -- Introduction -- Preface -- Chapter 1: A Fool There Was -- Chapter 2: Canadaâ#x80;#x99;s Armada -- Chapter 3: Some Unpleasant Things, Including the War Office and Salisbury Plain -- Chapter 4: Current Events -- Chapter 5: The Interesting Business of â#x80;#x9C;Taking Overâ#x80;#x9D; -- Chapter 6: St. Patrickâ#x80;#x99;s Day in the Morning -- Chapter 7: Introducing â#x80;#x9C;Wipersâ#x80;#x9D; -- Chapter 8: The Gas Attack at Ypres |
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Chapter 9: Being Mostly Illuminating Observations and AsidesChapter 10: The Debacle of Givenchy -- Chapter 11: The Shell Shortage -- Chapter 12: The St. Eloi Craters, 1916 -- Chapter 13: The June Ypres -- Chapter 14: The Bloodbath in the Somme -- Chapter 15: Regina Trench -- Chapter 16: The End of the Somme Offensive -- Chapter 17: Vimy Ridge -- Chapter 18: In Defence of England -- Chapter 19: Hill 70 -- Chapter 20: September of 1917 -- Chapter 21: Back to Ypres Again -- Chapter 22: The Capture of Passchendaele -- Chapter 23: Election Issues |
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Chapter 24: Trying out the TanksChapter 25: The Last Attempt on Paris: First Stage -- Chapter 26: The Last Attempt on Paris: Second Stage -- Chapter 27: The Last Attempt on Paris: Final Stage -- Chapter 28: Preparations for August 8 -- Chapter 29: The Turn of the Tide -- Chapter 30: The Capture of Monchy-le-Preux -- Chapter 31: Smashing Hindenburg -- Chapter 32: The Battle of Bourlon Wood and the Capture of Cambrai -- Chapter 33: The Grand Advance and the Capture of Valenciennes -- Chapter 34: How Peace Came -- Chapter 35: The Occupation of Germany |
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Chapter 36: DemobilizationAcknowledgements -- Index |
| Summary |
The never-before-published memoir of Major-General Sir Edward Morrison, a true Canadian hero of the First World War.The First World War marked a turning point in Canadian history and in Canada's self-identification as a nation. Yet in memorializing the iconic events and battles of the War, certain key individuals who participated have been lost in our collective memory. One of those individuals is Major-General Sir Edward Morrison.Morrison was instrumental in the Canadian Army's efforts and achievements throughout the War, but especially from 1916 until 1918, when he commanded all Canadian artillery, including at the battles of Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele. An accomplished journalist who was the editor of both the Hamilton Spectator and the Ottawa Citizen, Morrison recorded his experiences, strategies, darkly humourous observations, and insights into the nature of modern warfare in a memoir that he completed but never published before his death in 1925. Now, with the permission of his estate, Morrison's words are made public for the first time, with a thought-provoking introduction by military historian Susan Raby-Dunne. Morrison: The Long-lost Memoir of Canada's Artillery Commander in the Great War is a fascinating and highly readable historical document that brings a rawness and immediacy to a century-old conflict |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Issued also in print format |
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Online resource; title from EPUB version (Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection, viewed January 6, 2021) |
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Print version record |
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Morrison, Edward, Sir.
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Morrison, Edward, Sir fast |
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Canada. Canadian Army -- Officers -- Biography
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Canada. Canadian Army fast |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Canadian
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Generals -- Canada -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Armed Forces -- Officers
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Generals
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Canada
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Raby-Dunne, Susan, 1954- editor.
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| LC no. |
2017491762 |
| ISBN |
9781772032154 |
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1772032158 |
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9781772032161 |
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1772032166 |
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