The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign
A Study of Failure in High Command
By John A. English
Foreword by Gunther E. Rothenberg
0-275-93019-X/978-0-275-93019-6
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This book is a unique case study of the impact of a peacetime army--its history, organization and command structures, doctrines, and level of training--on the subsequent operation of large field forces in battle. Drawing on a variety of archival sources, the author presents new information on attempts to prepare inadequately trained troops for battle during World War II, together with a critical analysis of the Canadian army's performance in the late stages of the war.
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This immensely stimulating book by John A. English enrishes the already distinguished new generation of scholarship on the armies of the Western Allies of 1939-45.
—American Historical Review
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This book is a welcome and necessary addition to the literature. It will be warmly received by Normandy veterans, and will stimulate much interest and debate amongst professional soldiers and military historians alike.
—The International History Review
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[A]n outstanding analytical study that raises important questions about the army and the society that created it...
The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign
is an excellent book full of insight as well as new information.
—The Canadian Historical Review
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English has produced a remarkably rich record of a multiple of elements that are fascinating to read and fit together. It is well written, thoroughly researched and documented, and usefully illustrated. It is an honest reappraisal of the received version of Canadian experience in the Normandy campaign. The frank identification of the reality of responsibility resting with the Canadian commanders whose abilities, or lack thereof, were products of the decade of peace during which they had led is a valuable addition to he written historical record and to the theoretical approach to the Canadian military experience.
—The Historian
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