Jean-Pierre Gagnon
\nQu\u00e9bec, QC: Presses de l’Universit\u00e9 Laval, 1986<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Moving beyond conventional operational history, Gagnon examines the 22nd Battalion – the only French-speaking battalion in the Canadian Expeditionary Force – as a social and cultural microcosm of French-Canadian society.<\/p>\n
\nArt at the Service of War: Canada, Art and the Great War<\/i><\/h3>\n
Maria Tippett
\nToronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1984<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Tippett’s narrative describes the founding and initiatives of the Canadian War Art Memorial Fund, the institution responsible for commissioning some of Canada’s richest and most important wartime cultural legacies.<\/p>\n
\nAt the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916<\/i><\/h3>\n
Tim Cook
\nToronto, ON: Viking Canada, 2007<\/p>\n
Book Description<\/b>:\u00a0At the Sharp End<\/i>\u00a0focuses on personal stories in covering the harrowing early battles of the First World War, when thousands died before generals and soldiers had found ways to break the terrible trench stalemate. It is an intimate look at Canadian soldiers in the trenches and an account of the slow evolution in tactics, weapons, and attitudes that led to an unbroken series of victories later in the war. It contains photographs, letters, diaries, and maps but has little material on the war at sea, in the air, or at home.<\/p>\n
\nBarker VC: The Life, Death and Legend of Canada’s Most Decorated War Hero<\/i><\/h3>\n
Wayne Ralph
\nToronto, ON: Wiley, 2007<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0A photo-based book about the life of one of Canada’s premier flying aces from the First World War, William Barker, Canada’s most decorated war hero. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for a dogfight against several dozen German fighters in October 1918.<\/p>\n
\nThe Battle for Berlin, Ontario: An Historical Drama<\/i><\/h3>\n
William Rowley Chadwick
\nWaterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Canadians tend to remember the First World War as a unifying experience for the Canadian nation. Yet Chadwick’s study of Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) reminds us that the war was also a highly divisive force, one capable of tearing local communities apart.<\/p>\n
\nBilly Bishop: Canadian Hero<\/i><\/h3>\n
Dan McCaffery
\nHalifax, NS: James Lorimer & Company, 2002<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0McCaffery examines the achievements of highly decorated First World War pilot Billy Bishop and the historical debates surrounding his number of “kills.” Bishop was the Allies’ second-leading ace, but some of his fellow pilots suspected he may have exaggerated his number of “kills.”<\/p>\n
\nBut This is Our War<\/i><\/h3>\n
Grace Morris Craig
\nToronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1981<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0A useful companion to Sandra Gwyn’s\u00a0A Tapestry of War<\/i>, Craig’s memoir describes the experience of just one Canadian family, from Pembroke, Ontario, but it is a story that was repeated in countless other large and small communities across the country.<\/p>\n
\nCanada and the Battle of Vimy Ridge, 8-12 April 1917<\/i><\/h3>\n
Brereton Greenhous and Stephen Harris
\nOttawa, ON: Canada Communication Group, 1992<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Greenhous and Harris’s large format illustrated history serves as a useful point of departure for a more detailed understanding of the battle that has captured the national imagination more than any other operation of the First World War.<\/p>\n
Also available under the French title: Le Canada et la bataille de Vimy, 9-12 avril, 1917<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\nCanadian Brass: The Making of a Professional Army, 1860-1939<\/i><\/h3>\n
Stephen Harris
\nToronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Although covering a much broader period than the First World War itself, Harris’s discussion of Canadian military culture during the second half of the nineteenth century provides important context for understanding Canada’s military response to the First World War.<\/p>\n
\nThe Canadian Corps in World War I<\/i><\/h3>\n
By Rene Chartrand
\nIllustrated by Gerry Embleton
\nOxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2007<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0This book’s meticulous illustrations and photographs depict the uniforms and equipment used by Canadian soldiers during the First World War. It also contains a complete list of units and their service records. It is an excellent reference book for older students, hobbyists, or modelers.<\/p>\n
\nCanadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919: The Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War<\/i><\/h3>\n
G.W.L. Nicholson
\nOttawa, ON: Queen’s Printer, 1962<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0As the only complete Canadian official history of the war to be published, Nicholson’s volume serves as the first point of reference for historians and general readers alike. The narrative is concise and well balanced, while the colour maps excellently detail Canada’s most important battles.<\/p>\n
\nDeath So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War<\/i><\/h3>\n
Jonathan Vance
\nVancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1997<\/p>\n
Description<\/b>: Vance’s study of Canadian memory between the wars breaks new ground in the field, forcing today’s historians to rethink longstanding impressions of Canadian attitudes during the postwar period. Vance shows that during the 1920s and 1930s Canadians continued to find positive meaning in the war experience, as expressed through poetry, commemorative monuments, and rituals.<\/p>\n
\nThe Fighting Newfoundlander<\/i><\/h3>\n
G.W.L. Nicholson
\nMontreal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006 (reprint)<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0A comprehensive military history of Newfoundland from 1700s to 1918, focusing on the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War. It is the standard reference on Newfoundland’s role in the war.<\/p>\n
\nFight or Pay: Soldiers’ Families in the Great War<\/i><\/h3>\n
Desmond Morton
\nVancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2004<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Soldiers could not be expected to risk their lives without assurances that their families would be taken care of at home. The ‘separation allowance’ represented one such effort, but Canadians demanded more. As Morton explains, any man who did not volunteer to fight at the front must instead pay for the war from home. Morton’s study makes an excellent companion to Sandra Gwyn’s\u00a0Tapestry of War<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\nGeneral Sir Arthur Currie: A Military Biography<\/i><\/h3>\n
A.M.J. Hyatt
\nToronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1987<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Canada’s best-known First World War general has been the subject of three biographies, but Hyatt’s work drives to the heart of Currie’s military career, focusing on battlefield victories, as well as the commander’s more controversial decisions.<\/p>\n
\nGhosts Have Warm Hands<\/i><\/h3>\n
Will R. Bird
\nNepean, ON: CEF Books, 1997<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0This memoir, originally published in 1930, recounts the personal experiences of Will Bird who fought with the 42nd Battalion during the First World War. Bird’s brother, Steve, also served in the war, and once promised if killed, he would find a way to come back and watch over Will. Steve was killed in France in 1915 and kept his word, appearing to Will several times during the war.<\/p>\n
\nThe Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy<\/i><\/h3>\n
John Griffith Armstrong
\nVancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2002<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Armstrong’s narrative of the catastrophic 1917 Halifax explosion makes excellent use of eyewitness accounts. Arguing that the nascent Royal Canadian Navy was unfairly vilified for its role in the disaster, Armstrong refocuses blame on the federal government.<\/p>\n
\nThe Harvests of War: The Prairie West, 1914-1918<\/i><\/h3>\n
John Herd Thompson
\nToronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1978<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0The First World War impacted Canadian regions in different ways. Immediately before the war, Canada’s prairie provinces were troubled by economic recession, unemployment, and the tensions that accompanied the arrival of masses of immigrants from Eastern Europe. Thompson places these issues in a wartime context, tracing the conflict’s longer term impact on a key Canadian region.<\/p>\n
\nIt Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF, 1916-1919<\/i><\/h3>\n
Bruce Cane
\nToronto, ON: Dundurn Press, 2004<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Deward Barnes enlisted in the CEF in 1916 at the age of 28 and served in France. Cane annotates Barnes’ diary entries, contributing half of the text to this sometimes funny but harrowing book.<\/p>\n
\nMarching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War, 1914-1919<\/i><\/h3>\n
Desmond Morton and J.L. Granatstein
\nToronto, ON: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0This readable, illustrated volume is a detailed, popular account of Canada’s war at home and overseas. Written by two of Canada’s best-known historians, it contains useful appendices on social issues, casualties, and the Canadian military’s order of battle.<\/p>\n
\nMedicine and Duty: The World War Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill Medical Officer 31st Battalion C.E.F.<\/i><\/h3>\n
Marjory Barron Norris, Editor
\nCalgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2007<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0The diary of medical officer Harold McGill is supplemented by photographs, maps, and excerpts of letters written by McGill to his friends and family from the trenches. Norris edited the original manuscript and added explanatory notes, maps, and excerpts from McGill’s letters to friends and family.<\/p>\n
\nA Military History of Canada: From Champlain to Kosovo<\/i><\/h3>\n
Desmond Morton
\nToronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1999<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Morton’s concise survey of the Canadian military experience is a highly accessible work that provides excellent context for further study of the First World War period.<\/p>\n
\nThe Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume I<\/i><\/h3>\n
S.F. Wise
\nToronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1980<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0This first volume of the official history of Canada’s air force recounts the experiences of First World War Canadian pilots serving with the British flying services before Canada created its own national air force in 1924.<\/p>\n
\nOne Village, One War: 1914-1945<\/i><\/h3>\n
Douglas How
\nHuntsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1995<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>One Village, One War<\/i>\u00a0describes the experiences of residents of Dorchester, New Brunswick during both world wars and includes accounts from both soldiers and civilians.<\/p>\n
\nOntario and the First World War, 1914-1918: A Collection of Documents<\/i><\/h3>\n
Barbara Wilson
\nToronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1977<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0As a national archivist, Barbara Wilson has significantly facilitated our access to First World War-era primary sources. Prefaced by Wilson’s comprehensive introduction, this collection of primary documents sheds light on the increasing role that the government came to play in the lives of ordinary Ontarians during the war years.<\/p>\n
\nSam Hughes: The Public Career of a Controversial Canadian, 1885-1916<\/i><\/h3>\n
Ronald Haycock
\nWaterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0As Minister of Militia and Defence from 1911 through 1916, Sam Hughes remains one of Canada’s most colourful and controversial characters of the First World War period. Haycock’s comprehensive study of Hughes’s public career sheds much light on the often bizarre tendencies of a highly outspoken Canadian patriot.<\/p>\n
\nTapestry of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great War<\/i><\/h3>\n
Sandra Gwyn
\nToronto, ON: Harper, 2004<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Gwyn’s work weaves together the stories of ten Canadians (three women and seven men) at war. The book’s asymmetrical style reminds readers that the war changed Canadians’ lives unevenly and unforeseeably.<\/p>\n
\nWe Are the Dead<\/i><\/h3>\n
Larry Gray
\nBurnstown, ON: General Store Publishing, 2000<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0Using letters, photographs, and newspaper articles,\u00a0We Are the Dead<\/i>\u00a0highlights the stories of 47 people from a small Ontario town who died in the First World War. Maps illustrate the activities of the Canadian Corps overseas.<\/p>\n
\nWhen Your Number’s Up: The Canadian Soldier in the First World War<\/i><\/h3>\n
Desmond Morton
\nToronto, ON: Vintage Canada, 1994<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0This is a unique illustrated social history of the First World War as experienced by Canadian soldiers. Morton describes the social origins of Canada’s troops, their training and preparation for combat, the trenches and the experiences of the wounded, prisoners and returning veterans. Morton also offers an account, based on personal memoirs and letters, of the Canadian Corps’ tactical evolution and improvement, and concludes with a short statistical profile of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.<\/p>\n
\nSurviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918<\/i><\/h3>\n
Bill Rawling
\nToronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1992<\/p>\n
Description:<\/b>\u00a0This examination of the evolution of tactics and technology in the Canadian Corps on the Western Front is based on thorough archival research. Rawling demonstrates the roles that combat experience and dedicated study played in transforming the Corps into a highly efficient fighting formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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