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Canada's Army

Canada's Army

Waging War and Keeping the Peace, Third Edition

by J.L. Granatstein

Published by: University of Toronto Press

64 b&w illustrations

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9781487509507
Published: August 2021

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9781487509491
Published: August 2021

Description
Contents
Praise

Written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the country's leading political and military historians, Canada's Army traces the full three-hundred-year history of the Canadian military. This thoroughly revised third edition brings Granatstein’s work up to date with fresh material and new scholarship on the evolving role of the military in Canadian society. It includes new coverage of the War in Afghanistan; NATO deployments to Poland, Latvia, and Iraq; aid to the civil power deployments; and the role of the army reserve. Masterfully written and passionately argued, Canada's Army offers a rich analysis of the political context for the battles and events that shape our understanding of the Canadian military.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Maps

1. The Militia Myth: Canadian Arms to Confederation
2. Making an Army: Beginnings
3. A Militia under Arms: Sam Hughes’s Army
4. Becoming Professional: Arthur Currie’s Army
5. Losing Professionalism: The Interwar Years
6. McNaughton’s Army: The Long Wait
7. Into Battle: Sicily and Italy, July 1943–June 1944
8. Into Battle: Northwest Europe and Italy, June 1944–May 1945
9. The Professional Army, 1945–1968
10. Professionalism under Siege, 1968–2001
11. Afghanistan and the Remaking of the Army
12. Conclusion

Notes
A Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Illustration Credits
Index

"Granatstein is, without doubt, one of Canada’s pre-eminent military historians ... [Should any] Canadian wish to become functionally knowledgable about our army, this book is an excellent place to start."
~Steven Dieter, The Globe and Mail

"[An] immensely readable tour de force through the political and battlefield swamps of army history."
~Ron Lowman, Toronto Star

"Everyone who cares for and about Canada's army will be pleased with Granatstein’s superb book."
~Major Michael McNorgan, Canadian Military Journal