Loyal Gunners: 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (The Loyal Company) and the History of New Brunswick's Artillery, 1893-2012 (Canadian Unit, Formation, and Command Histories, 1)

Windsor, Lee; Sarty, Roger; Milner, Marc

ISBN 10: 1771122374 / ISBN 13: 9781771122375

Edité par Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, 2016

A propos de cet article

cloth,pp., xviii, 473 : illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits, a fine copy in a fine d.j., CONTENTS: The second century of service begins, 1893-1914 -- Seeking and finding a role at home and abroad, 1914-16 -- Building the Corps Artillery, 1915-16 -- War on two fronts, 1917 -- The guns of victory, 1918 -- The long armistice, 1919-1939 -- War on the home front, 1939-45 -- The long road to combat in Europe, 1939-44 -- Sicily and Italiy : New Brunswick's batteries in I Canadian Corps, 1943-45 -- Northwest Europe, 1944-45 -- Cold war and turbulent peace, 1946-2001. Publisher Synopsis This book is the only provincial study of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. It traces the general evolution of the permanent and reserve elements of the army from the 1890s to the conflict in Afghanistan. The greatest contribution of this work is its discussion of the formation of the Canadian Corps artillery in 1915-1916, coastal defence between 1939 and 1945, and in particular, the detailed discussion of events after 1945, including the Cold War, the Balkans, and Afghanistan.--John Grodzinski Size: 4to. (26 cm).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Loyal Gunners: 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (The Loyal Company) and the History of New Brunswick's Artillery, 1893-2012 (Canadian Unit, Formation, and Command Histories, 1)
• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1771122374
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781771122375
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Canadiana
  • Military

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Synopsis

This book uniquely encapsulates the experience of Canadian militia gunners and their units into a single compelling narrative that centres on the artillery units of New Brunswick. The story of those units is a profoundly Canadian story: one of dedication and sacrifice in service of great guns and of Canada. The 3rd Field Regiment (The Loyal Company), Royal Canadian Artillery, is Canada s oldest artillery unit, dating to the founding of the Loyal Company in Saint John in 1793. Since its centennial in 1893, 3rd Field -- in various permutations of medium, coastal, and anti-aircraft artillery -- has formed the core of New Brunswick s militia artillery, and it has endured into the twenty-first century as the last remaining artillery unit in the province. This book is the first modern assessment of the development of Canadian heavy artillery in the Great War, the first look at the development of artillery in general in both world wars, and the first exploration of the development and operational deployment of anti-tank artillery in the Second World War. It also tells a universal story of survival as it chronicles the fortunes of New Brunswick militia units through the darkest days of the Cold War, when conventional armed forces were entirely out of favour. In 1950 New Brunswick had four and a half regiments of artillery; by 1970 it had one -- 3rd Field. The book traces the rise and fall of artillery batteries in New Brunswick as the nature of modern war evolved. From the Great War to Afghanistan it provides the most comprehensive account to date of Canada s gunners.

À propos des auteurs

Lee Windsor holds the Fredrik S. Eaton Chair in Canadian Army Studies at the University of New Brunswick. He is deputy director of The Brigadier Milton Gregg VC Centre for the Study of War and Society and an associate professor in UNB's Department of History.

Roger Sarty, history professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, was in previous careers senior historian at the Department of National Defence and deputy director at the Canadian War Museum. His other books on the Canadian Army in the Maritimes include Saint John Fortifications (2003, with Doug Knight) and Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney Cape Breton and the Atlantic Wars (2012, with Brian Tennyson).

Marc Milner is best known for his naval histories, including North Atlantic Run (1985), The U-Boat Hunters (1995), and Canada's Navy: The First Century (2009). His 2003 book Battle of the Atlantic won the C.P. Stacey Prize for the best book in military history in Canada. Milner's latest book is Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day (2014).