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Index
Cover
About the Author
Other Titles
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Shock Troops
Chapter 1: Dying to Survive: The Battlefield Specialists on the Western Front
Chapter 2: From Amateurs to Professionals: Taking Control of the Canadian War Effort
Chapter 3: Raiding—the Laboratory of Battle: January–April 1917
Chapter 4: Bungo and the Byng Boys: Preparing for the Vimy Battle
Chapter 5: “You live like pigs, and you kill like pigs”: The 1st Canadian Division
Chapter 6: “Even if one man [is] left alive the objective must be taken and held”: The 2nd Canadian Division
Chapter 7: “There before us, frightfully close, was the edge of hell”: The 3rd Canadian Division
Chapter 8: “We will take it or never come back”: The 4th Canadian Division
Chapter 9: A Victory Too Costly? The Bloodiest Battle in Canadian Military History
Chapter 10: “Do your duty and fight to the finish”: The Battles of Arleux and Fresnoy, April 28–May 8, 1917
Chapter 11: “Good to be back in civilization”: Blighty, the Temporary Respite
Chapter 12: “Sing me to sleep where bullets fall”: Soldiers’ Culture
Chapter 13: “Camaraderie of the damned”: Rewards, Combat Motivation, and Sick Grins
Chapter 14: Supernatural Battlefields: The Dead and the Undead on the Western Front
Chapter 15: The Breaking Point: Collapse and Punishment
Chapter 16: A Canadian Corps Commander: Sir Arthur Currie
Chapter 17: Over the Top: August 15, 1917
Chapter 18: Bleeding the Germans White: August 15–18, 1917
Chapter 19: “Swallowed up in the swirling murk of the battle”: Hill 70 and Lens, August 18–25, 1917
Chapter 20: Called to Battle: Passchendaele, October 1917
Chapter 21: “I don’t know how the human frame stood up”: October 26, 1917
Chapter 22: Crawling out of the Mud: October 30, 1917
Chapter 23: “The devil himself couldn’t have stopped us”: November 6–10, 1917
Chapter 24: “Educated largely by our own mistakes”: November 1917–March 1918
Chapter 25: Backs to the Wall: The German Peace Offensive, March–May 1918
Chapter 26: “Our nerves grew steadier; our tempers improved”: Training and Rest, Summer 1918
Chapter 27: The Empire Strikes Back: The Battle of Amiens
Chapter 28: The Eighth of the Eighth: The Battle of Amiens, August 8, 1918
Chapter 29: “I think this is the beginning of the end”: August 9–14, 1918
Chapter 30: Hard Pounding: Breaking the Arras Trench System
Chapter 31: “Hammer and tongs fighting”: Set-Piece Battles August 27–September 1, 1918
Chapter 32: “It was murder to move and suicide to stay put”: Breaking the Drocourt-Quéant Line, September 2, 1918
Chapter 33: “Be bold—always bold”: Preparing for the Battle of the Canal du Nord, September 1918
Chapter 34: Shock and Awe: Crashing the Canal du Nord, September 27–28, 1918
Chapter 35: “Every time I look around for a familiar face, I find they have gone”: September 29–October 9, 1918
Chapter 36: “We steeled ourselves not to let down the Corps”: The Battle of Valenciennes, November 1–2, 1918
Chapter 37: “A bloody long way to Mons”: November 11, 1918
Chapter 38: “I wanted to get the hell home”: Demobilization, 1919
Chapter 39: “Life to me can never be the same”: The Veterans’ Return
Chapter 40: The Butcher’s Bill
Chapter 41: Whither the Great War? 1919 to the Present
Notes on Sources
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
Credits
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