Reluctant Warriors
Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War(Studies in Canadian Military History)

Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War(Studies in Canadian Military History)


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



Out of Stock


Notify me when this book is in stock
X
About the Book

During the "Hundred Days" campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were generally considered slackers for not having volunteered to fight. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths about conscripts, Patrick Dennis examines whether these men arrived at the right moment, and in sufficient numbers, to make any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps. He examines the conscripts themselves, their journey to war, the battles in which they fought, and their largely undocumented sacrifice and heroism. Reluctant Warriors sheds new light on the success of the Military Service Act and provides fresh evidence that conscripts were good soldiers who fought valiantly and made a crucial contribution to the war effort.

Table of Contents:
Foreword / By J.L. Granatstein Introduction: Slackers, Shirkers, and Malingerers 1 "The Blood Dimmed Tide" 2 Canada's New Fighting Forces 3 The First Canadian Conscripts in Combat 4 Conspicuous Gallantry at Amiens 5 "Draft Men" and the Battle of the Scarpe, 1918 6 The Hardest Single Battle: The Drocourt-Quéant Line 7 Canal du Nord and the Brotherhood of Arms 8 A Dangerous Advance Continued 9 Cambrai and Iwuy: "For a time hell was loose" 10 Honour and Duty in the Pursuit to Mons 11 The Equal of the Best Conclusion: Evidence has a Way of Dissolving Theories Appendices Notes; Bibliography; Index

About the Author :
Patrick M. Dennis is a retired Canadian Air Force colonel who served abroad for over twenty-two years, including tours as Canada's deputy military representative to the NATO Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium, and as the Canadian defence attaché to Israel. He is a graduate of the United States Armed Forces Staff College and the NATO Defence College and holds a master's degree in communication from the University of Northern Colorado. In 1986, he was invested by Governor-General Jeanne Sauvé as an Officer in the Order of Military Merit. After leaving the military, he lectured on global political-military affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University and was a part-time instructor with the Canadian Forces College, Toronto, specializing in command and management and the law of armed conflict. Currently, he is an adjunct associate with the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies.

Review :
Patrick M. Dennis's Reluctant Warriors, another compelling entry in the UBC Press/Canadian War Museum Studies in Canadian Military History series, is a topical and long overdue examination of a fascinating chapter of Canada's Great War experience … The work has immense emotional resonance, a welcome change from the detachment so common to operational history, buttressed by the author's personal connection to the story … Reluctant Warriors is ... a cri de coeur that demolishes old assumptions about conscripts in combat and provides an important contribution to the larger question of what Canada gained – and lost – in the First World War. - Andrew Theobald, author of The Bitter Harvest of War: New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917 (Conference of Defence Associations Institute) [Reluctant Warriors] takes aim at oft-repeated tales characterizing conscripts as shirkers and malingerers who arrived too late and with too little training to contribute in any meaningful way to the war effort. Dennis provides a corrective, proving that draftees were a significant stream of reinforcements during periods when casualty rates kept Canadian units chronically understrength… this book really shines when it mines the personal testimony of the conscripts. - Will Pratt, Mount Royal College (Prairie History) This is a first-rate book, well written and coherent. It is very readable and I recommend it to both serious scholars of the war and to the casual historian. - Colonel (Ret'd) Keith Maxwell, Canadian Army and Air Force & NATO International Staff (Conference of Defence Associations Institute) Patrick Dennis has provided a well-researched study that should be an important part of any intellectual discussion on the Canadian First World War experience. - David Borys, University of British Columbia (Canadian Military History, Vol 27, Issue 2) Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War, another compelling entry in the UBC Press/Canadian War Museum Studies in Canadian Military History series, is a topical and long overdue examination of a fascinating chapter of Canada's Great War experience. - Andrew Theobald, author of The Bitter Harvest of War: New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917 (Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association, No. 113)


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780774835985
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 332
  • Sub Title: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0774835982
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Studies in Canadian Military History
  • Weight: 480 gr


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War(Studies in Canadian Military History)
University of British Columbia Press -
Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War(Studies in Canadian Military History)
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War(Studies in Canadian Military History)

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals


    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!