Beschreibung:
Originally published in 1993, The Generals is a collective biography of the Canadian army's leaders in World War II, and is the winner of the Dafoe Book Prize for International Relations and the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography. The only book of its kind
Introduction: The Old Army. The Old Brigade. McNaughton: The God That Failed. Crerar: Ambition Realised. Tommy Burns: Problems of Personality. Simonds: Master of the Battlefield. Matthews & Hoffmeister: Militia Successes. Pope & Stuart: Soldiers & Politicians. The Absence of Francophone Generals. Conclusion.