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Riding into Battle
Canadian Cyclists in the Great War
by Ted Glenn
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Pub Date
Oct 02 2018
| Archive Date
Aug 31 2018
Description
The untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War.
Canada’s Cyclists 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 cycling troops finally 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.
The untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War. Canada’s Cyclists spent most of the First World War digging trenches, patrolling...
Description
The untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War.
Canada’s Cyclists 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 cycling troops finally 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.
A Note From the Publisher
By the end of the war, the Cyclists called their battalion the Suicide Squad, as it had the fifth largest casualty rate of all Canadian units
By the end of the war, the Cyclists called their battalion the Suicide Squad, as it had the fifth largest casualty rate of all Canadian units
Advance Praise
Even military history buffs may not be aware that five Canadian cyclist companies were created as part of Canada’s contribution to the First World War … This highly readable account of the Canadian Cyclists is supplemented with an extraordinary collection of period photographs.
Aldona Sendzikas, Associate Professor, Department of History, UWO, author of Stanley Barracks: Toronto’s Military Legacy
Even military history buffs may not be aware that five Canadian cyclist companies were created as part of Canada’s contribution to the First World War … This highly readable account of the Canadian...
Advance Praise
Even military history buffs may not be aware that five Canadian cyclist companies were created as part of Canada’s contribution to the First World War … This highly readable account of the Canadian Cyclists is supplemented with an extraordinary collection of period photographs.
Aldona Sendzikas, Associate Professor, Department of History, UWO, author of Stanley Barracks: Toronto’s Military Legacy
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781459742611 |
| PRICE |
$24.00 (USD)
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| PAGES |
176
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781459742611 |
| PRICE |
$24.00 (USD)
|
| PAGES |
176
|
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