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Loyal Gunners

3rd Field Artillery Regiment (The Loyal Company) and the History of New Brunswick's Artillery, 1893-2012

de Lee Windsor (auteur), Roger Sarty (auteur), Marc Milner (auteur)
Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
septembre 2016
420 pages Téléchargement après achat
33,99 €
420 pages Téléchargement après achat
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Résumé

Loyal Gunners 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.

Loyal Gunners 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.

Auteur

  • Lee Windsor (auteur)

    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 (auteur)

    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 (auteur)

    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).

Auteur(s) : Lee Windsor, Roger Sarty, Marc Milner

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Caractéristiques

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Auteur(s) : Lee Windsor, Roger Sarty, Marc Milner

Publication : 14 septembre 2016

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub], Livre numérique eBook [PDF]

Contenu(s) : ePub, PDF

Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub), Marquage social (PDF)

Taille(s) : 72,3 Mo (ePub), 19,7 Mo (PDF)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781771122566

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [PDF] : 9781771122559

EAN13 (papier) : 9781771122375

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