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Carregando... Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy (Joanne Goodman Lectures)de Terry Copp
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. https://www.instagram.com/p/BpUZasfn3dJ/ The book did indeed center on the involvement of the Canadian Army in the Normandy Campaign. I was disappointed however in that the book did not present anything that was characteristic of these troops, that is, anything uniquely 'Canadian' which stood them apart from their brethren, the British. The contributions of these men was presented at a rather high level and had more of operational flavor than I had hoped. All in all, the book was thorough and quite readable. I came away with a better understanding of this Corps but not the deeper understanding of the men who comprised it, This study of Canadian arms in the Normandy campaign turns the usual analysis of events on its head. Very much gunning for the conclusions of previous historians, Copp goes through a close tactical and operational analysis to conclude that the Canadians should not be considered the scapegoats of the perceived failures of the campaign, but the work horses of the Montgomery's forces. Any failings that can be attributed to the Canadians can just as easily be found in the other Allied formations so far as Copp is concerned, and there should be more respect for the performance of the "rational soldier-civilian" in the face of having to cope with the cream of the Wehrmacht, ground favorable to the defense, and air & gunnery support that was pushing against the limitations of period technology. To a degree, you can consider this "normal" history in action. This is as the paradigm of examining operational effectiveness (Dupuy, Van Creveld, D'Este, etc.) in military history generated counter-intuitive results that cried out for a new explanatory narrative in Copp's view. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieJoanne Goodman Lectures (1998)
Referências a esta obra em recursos externos. Wikipédia em inglês (16)With Fields of Fire, Terry Copp challenges the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a "failure" - that the allies won only through the use of brute force, and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent. His detailed and impeccably researched analysis of what actually happened on the battlefield portrays a flexible, innovative army that made a major, and successful, contribution to the defeat of the German forces in just seventy-six days. Challenging both existing interpretations of the campaign and current approaches to military history, Copp examines the Battle of Normandy, tracking the soldiers over the battlefield terrain and providing an account of each operation carried out by the Canadian army. In so doing, he illustrates the valour, skill, and commitment of the Allied citizen-soldier in the face of a well-entrenched and well-equipped enemy army. This new edition of Copp's best-selling, award-winning history includes a new introduction that examines the strategic background of the Battle of Normandy. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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