Riding into battle : canadian cyclists in the Great War / Ted Glenn.
"Cyclist troops in Canada's armed forces spent most of the First World War digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the end of the Great War, Canada's Cyclist troops came into their own. At Amiens, Cambrai, and especially the Pursuit from...
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| Language: | English |
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Text in English. |
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Toronto :
Dundurn,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: | 175 pages ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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"Cyclist troops in Canada's armed forces spent most of the First World War digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the end of the Great War, Canada's Cyclist troops came into their own. At Amiens, Cambrai, and especially the Pursuit from the Sensée, the Cyclists made pioneering contributions to the development of the Canadian Corps's combined arms strategy and mobile warfare doctrine, all the while exhibiting the consummate professionalism the Corps became renowned for."-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Call Number: | GV1051.A1 G546 2018 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages166-168) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781459742611 1459742613 9781459742635 145974263X 9781459742628 1459742621 |
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