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Commanding Canadians : The Second World War Diaries of A. F. C. Layard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Canadian Military History SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774851671
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Commanding CanadiansDDC classification:
  • 940.54/516/092
LOC classification:
  • D771 -- .L384 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Maps and Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: Like Cutting Butter -- Introduction: An Officer and His Diary -- 1 One Does Get Tired of Them, September-December 1943 -- 2 Shaking Down, January-March 1944 -- 3 Overseas, March-May 1944 -- 4 The Great Endeavour, May-July 1944 -- 5 Exasperation Inshore, July-October 1944 -- 6 Deep Open Waters, October-December 1944 -- 7 Wreck to Wreck, Contact to Contact, January-March 1945 -- 8 Oasis of Comfort and Happiness, March-May 1945 -- Epilogue: Respite -- Appendix 1: Career Highlights of Cdr. A.F.C. Layard DSO, DSC, RN -- Appendix 2: The Ships of EG 9 -- Appendix 3: U-Boats Destroyed by Ships Attached to EG 9 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary from 1913 until 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard's preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea.
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Intro -- Contents -- Maps and Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: Like Cutting Butter -- Introduction: An Officer and His Diary -- 1 One Does Get Tired of Them, September-December 1943 -- 2 Shaking Down, January-March 1944 -- 3 Overseas, March-May 1944 -- 4 The Great Endeavour, May-July 1944 -- 5 Exasperation Inshore, July-October 1944 -- 6 Deep Open Waters, October-December 1944 -- 7 Wreck to Wreck, Contact to Contact, January-March 1945 -- 8 Oasis of Comfort and Happiness, March-May 1945 -- Epilogue: Respite -- Appendix 1: Career Highlights of Cdr. A.F.C. Layard DSO, DSC, RN -- Appendix 2: The Ships of EG 9 -- Appendix 3: U-Boats Destroyed by Ships Attached to EG 9 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary from 1913 until 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard's preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea.

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