Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918Examines the changes in tactics, training, and expectations of Canadian soldiers in World War I, because of the industrialization of combat. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Technology in the First World War | 3 |
The Road to the Somme | 37 |
Struggles on the Somme | 67 |
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1st Battalion 1st Canadian Division 2nd Canadian 3rd Division 42nd Battalion 4th Canadian 5th Battalion 78th Battalion advance aircraft ammunition April Arthur Currie Papers artillery support assault attack August barbed wire battle battlefield bombardment bombs Canadian Battalion Canadian Corps Canadian Divisional Canadian Expeditionary Force Canadian Infantry Brigade Canadian Mounted Rifles captured casualties commander Company counter-attacks creeping barrage Diary dugouts eighteen-pounders enemy enemy's fighting file 11 fire folder 11 folder 22 front line German artillery German defences grenades ground heavy howitzers Ibid infantry infantrymen learned Lee-Enfield lessons Lewis guns machine machine-guns man's land McNaughton Nicholson November objective October offensive officers Operations Carried Passchendaele patrols platoon positions Report on Operations RG 9 rifle-grenades Ross Rifle September shell signal soldiers Somme strong points tactics tanks targets Toronto Trench Mortar Battery Trench raids trench warfare troops units Victor Odlum Vimy Ridge weapons Western Front yards Ypres