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Corps Commanders : Five British and Canadian Generals at War, 1939-45.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Canadian Military History SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (408 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774820912
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Corps CommandersDDC classification:
  • 940.53/71
LOC classification:
  • D768.15 -- .D45 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Who, How, and the Common Ground -- 1 The Actor: Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks -- 2 Wit in Want of Will: Lieutenant-General E.L.M. Burns -- 3 The Quiet Gentleman: General Sir John Crocker -- 4 Wit with Will to Spare: Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds -- 5 The Master Bureaucrat: General Charles Foulkes -- Observations and Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Corps Commanders explains how five very different Second World War British and Canadian generals fought their battles, and why they fought them in similar fashion.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Who, How, and the Common Ground -- 1 The Actor: Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks -- 2 Wit in Want of Will: Lieutenant-General E.L.M. Burns -- 3 The Quiet Gentleman: General Sir John Crocker -- 4 Wit with Will to Spare: Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds -- 5 The Master Bureaucrat: General Charles Foulkes -- Observations and Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Corps Commanders explains how five very different Second World War British and Canadian generals fought their battles, and why they fought them in similar fashion.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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