Shoestring Soldiers: The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915 [Hardcover]

Andrew Iarocci (Author)

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Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division; 1 edition (Sep 26 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802098223
ISBN-13: 978-0802098221
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 680 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #214,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #21 in Books > History > Military > Regiments

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‘Shoestring Soldiers is a well-written account of the 1st Division at war, from its origins as the First Contingent to September 1915 when the Canadian Corps was formed with the addition of the 2nd Division. Andrew Iarocci strengthens our understanding of battlefield performance during the first year of the war, and provides an excellent assessment of the training in England, which is the single-best account of how the 1st Division prepared to fight. This book is a significant contribution to the field of Canadian military history, and one that historians will have to address when writing about Canada’s fighting forces in the first eighteen months of the Great War.’

-- Tim Cook, author of At the Sharp End

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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 Bassée 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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5.0 out of 5 stars The history of the first division of Canadians sent overseas to fight the Germans, Jan 9 2009

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Canada has for much of its existence served under the British Commonwealth, and when the United Kingdom went to war for World War I, the Canadians were right behind them. "Shoestring Soldiers: The 1st Canadian Division At War, 1914-1915" takes a look at the history of the first division of Canadians sent overseas to fight the Germans. Discussing their challenges stemming from unpreparedness of Canada for military conflict and how the nation started to overcome this to become a more respected division throughout the war, it's a seminal piece of Canadian military history. Heavily researched with scholarly opinions, and enhanced with appendixes, annotations, indexes, and a bibliography, "Shoestring Soldiers" is a must for any community or college library collection with a focus on Canada's military history.

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