Canadian Defence Academy Press - Book Release

[Borden Battery]

The CEF Study Group is pleased to be able to announce the release of the new book on Canadian generals from the Great War.

Edited by Major Andrew B. Godefroy, PhD this 248 page book from the Canadian Defence Academy Press is being made available free of charge in Adobe pdf format. Hard copies can be obtained shortly with details being provided on this website.

In addition, the free Adobe pdf file will be available from a number of websites of members of the CEF Study Group very shortly.

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Great War Commands: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Army Leadership 1914-1918

Edited By Andrew B. Godefroy - Canadian Defence Academy Press

Chapter 1 The Advent of the Set-Piece Attack:

Major-General Arthur Currie and the Battle of Mount Sorrel, 2-13 June 1916

Andrew B. Godefroy

Chapter 2 “A Leap in the Dark” – Intelligence and the Struggle for the St. Eloi Craters:

Reassessing the Role of Major-General Richard Turner

David Campbell

Chapter 3 “A Bonny Fighter & a Born Leader”

A Portrait of Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell, KCB, CMG, DSO

Ian Macpherson McCulloch

Chapter 4 “A Brutal Soul-Destroying Business”:

Brigadier-General F.O.W. Loomis and the Question of “Impersonal Generalship”

David R. O’Keefe.

Chapter 5 Major-General David Watson:

A Critical Appraisal of Canadian Generalship in the Great War

Patrick Brennan

Chapter 6 Leadership and Innovation:

Andrew McNaughton and the Counter-Battery Staff Office

Paul Dickson

Chapter 7 Lieutenant-Colonels Glen Campbell and Andrew T. Thompson and the Evolution of Native Canadian Participation during the First World War

Timothy C. Winegard

Chapter 8 Creating Combat Leaders in the Canadian Corps:

The Experiences of Lieutenant-Colonel Agar Adamson

Tod Strickland

ABSTRACT

From popular literature to reprinted memoirs and new media, over the last decade military historians have taken a renewed interest in Canada’s role in the First World War. In particular, their attention has focused greatly on the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) and its decisively lethal Canadian Corps, an ably-led and well-supported combat formation that was often unmatched for success on the western front. As the hammer of the British Army, the Canadian Corps soon earned the title “shock troops” and was often referred to as the “tip of the spear” in the Entente drive towards final victory on the western front. By the end of the war, over a half million men and women had served in the CEF and the Canadian Corps. Sadly, 64,944 of them never returned home.

Examinations of military organizations cannot be considered complete without some consideration for those who lead, shape, and guide them through both war and peace. Yet, despite the renewed attention on the Canadian Corps itself, the study of those who commanded this juggernaut at the highest levels remains much less well defined than the mass of men and women who filled its ranks. This is somewhat odd given that there exist many detailed political, social, operational, and tactical studies on theca, and begs one to ask how historians have assessed the movements and actions of the body of the Canadian Corps without developed understanding of what was going on in the mind of this titan as it did so.

Great War Commands: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Army Leadership, 1914-1918, brings together Canada’s leading military historians of the First World War to conduct the first ever in-depth study of the senior leadership of the CEF. Although by no means exhaustive, this book presents major contribution to broadening the current understanding of how theca was led and why it performed as it did both at home and on the battlefields of the western front.

[Chris_Baker]

Sounds tremendous. I look forward to clicking that download button.

[Borden Battery]

I am working with a half dozen Great War webmasters to get this available very shortly. I never thought, Chris, but do you want to host this book on the Great War Forum? Borden Battery

[Chris_Baker]

This has not been my Forum for a couple of years now, Borden. Best ask the Mods.

I'll happily host it on the Long, Long Trail. And if you wish I could ask the University of Birmingham Centre for First World War Studies too.

[Borden Battery]

Hello Chris

Yes, The Long Long Trail and the Centre for First World War Studies would be ideal sites. Send me a Private Message with the appropriate email address and I will forward the document. Is Bourne still the best contact at the Centre?

Borden Battery

[Borden Battery]

Here is the first website to host the Great War Commands digital book. More websites are coming. Borden Battery

*The Regimental Rogue – Canada

This updated website contains a wide range of information on the Canadian Armed Forces from the Northwest Rebellion to present day. There is a detailed list of the Great War battles and Battle Honours, and a section on the perpetuation of the units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), 1914-1919. O'Leary has added some additional features including "The Rogue Papers", "Tactical Primers" and "The Regimental Library". There is an excellent section on researching a CEF soldier and a nice list linking fallen Royal Canadian Regiment members with an Honour Roll, cemeteries and, and in some cases with a headstone photograph. Finally, this website now provides access to the Canadian Defence Academy Press free digital edition of Great War Commands - Historical Perspectives on Canadian Army Leadership 1914-1918. http://regimentalrogue.com/library/great_war_commands_godefroy.htm [CEF Study Group – Updated Oct 2010]

http://regimentalrogue.tripod.com/index.htm

[Borden Battery]

Here is a second website which has been updated to include a link to the digital book - a Peter Broznitsky website. Borden Battery

*Russians & Ukrainians in the C.E.F. 1914-1919

This website complements research on a pending book of the same title. What role was played by Ukrainians in the Canadian Expeditionary Force? This website includes material on the 41st French-Canadian Battalion, the 3rd Pioneer (48th Victoria) Battalion, the 29th Vancouver (Tobin's Tigers) Battalion and the Canadian Forestry Corps. Contact and interviews with descendants of these veterans is needed for the forthcoming book. There is also a section on how to research a soldier from the CEF. Finally, this website now provides access to the Canadian Defence Academy Press free digital edition of Great War Commands - Historical Perspectives on Canadian Army Leadership 1914-1918. Link http://www.russiansinthecef.ca/weblinks.shtml [A Peter Broznitsky website][CEF Study Group – Updated Oct 2010]

http://www.russiansinthecef.ca/index.shtml

[Borden Battery]

Here is another source for the digital book, my home Royal United Services Institute/Regina Officers' Mess in Regina, Canada.

http://www.rusiregina.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=12

[Borden Battery]

I thought I would bring this post back one year after its first notice. Recent members may wish to obtain a free digital copy - just forward your email address to me. Borden Battery

The CEF Study Group is pleased to be able to announce the release of the new book on Canadian generals from the Great War.

Edited by Major Andrew B. Godefroy, PhD this 248 page book from the Canadian Defence Academy Press is being made available free of charge in Adobe pdf format. Hard copies can be obtained shortly with details being provided on this website.

In addition, the free Adobe pdf file will be available from a number of websites of members of the CEF Study Group very shortly.

------------------------------------------------------------

Great War Commands: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Army Leadership 1914-1918

Edited By Andrew B. Godefroy - Canadian Defence Academy Press

Chapter 1 The Advent of the Set-Piece Attack:

Major-General Arthur Currie and the Battle of Mount Sorrel, 2-13 June 1916

Andrew B. Godefroy

Chapter 2 “A Leap in the Dark” – Intelligence and the Struggle for the St. Eloi Craters:

Reassessing the Role of Major-General Richard Turner

David Campbell

Chapter 3 “A Bonny Fighter & a Born Leader”

A Portrait of Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell, KCB, CMG, DSO

Ian Macpherson McCulloch

Chapter 4 “A Brutal Soul-Destroying Business”:

Brigadier-General F.O.W. Loomis and the Question of “Impersonal Generalship”

David R. O’Keefe.

Chapter 5 Major-General David Watson:

A Critical Appraisal of Canadian Generalship in the Great War

Patrick Brennan

Chapter 6 Leadership and Innovation:

Andrew McNaughton and the Counter-Battery Staff Office

Paul Dickson

Chapter 7 Lieutenant-Colonels Glen Campbell and Andrew T. Thompson and the Evolution of Native Canadian Participation during the First World War

Timothy C. Winegard

Chapter 8 Creating Combat Leaders in the Canadian Corps:

The Experiences of Lieutenant-Colonel Agar Adamson

Tod Strickland

ABSTRACT

From popular literature to reprinted memoirs and new media, over the last decade military historians have taken a renewed interest in Canada’s role in the First World War. In particular, their attention has focused greatly on the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) and its decisively lethal Canadian Corps, an ably-led and well-supported combat formation that was often unmatched for success on the western front. As the hammer of the British Army, the Canadian Corps soon earned the title “shock troops” and was often referred to as the “tip of the spear” in the Entente drive towards final victory on the western front. By the end of the war, over a half million men and women had served in the CEF and the Canadian Corps. Sadly, 64,944 of them never returned home.

Examinations of military organizations cannot be considered complete without some consideration for those who lead, shape, and guide them through both war and peace. Yet, despite the renewed attention on the Canadian Corps itself, the study of those who commanded this juggernaut at the highest levels remains much less well defined than the mass of men and women who filled its ranks. This is somewhat odd given that there exist many detailed political, social, operational, and tactical studies on theca, and begs one to ask how historians have assessed the movements and actions of the body of the Canadian Corps without developed understanding of what was going on in the mind of this titan as it did so.

Great War Commands: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Army Leadership, 1914-1918, brings together Canada’s leading military historians of the First World War to conduct the first ever in-depth study of the senior leadership of the CEF. Although by no means exhaustive, this book presents major contribution to broadening the current understanding of how theca was led and why it performed as it did both at home and on the battlefields of the western front.