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  title info:
    title: Monty and the Canadian Army
  name:
    name part: English, John A. (John Alan)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: General Bernard Law Montgomery, affectionately known as "Monty," exerted a more lasting military influence on the Canadian Army than any other Second World War commander. In 1942, he assumed responsibility for the exercise and training of Canadian formations in England, and by the end of the war Canada's field army was second to none in the practical exercise of combined arms. In Monty and the Canadian Army, John A. English analyzes the way Montgomery's operational influence continued to permeate the Canadian Army. For years, the Canadian Army remained a highly professional force largely because it was commanded by "Monty men," found at almost every lower level of army command, who were steeped in the Montgomery method. The era of the Canadian Army headed by such men ceased with the integration and unification of Canada's armed forces in 1964. The embrace of Montgomery by Canadian soldiers stands in marked contrast to negative perceptions by Americans, only a few of whom have viewed him in a favorable light. Monty and the Canadian Army aims to correct such perceptions, which are mostly superficial and more often than not wrong, and addresses the anomaly of how this gifted general, one of the greatest field commanders of World War Two, managed to win over other North American troops.
  table of contents: The Germination of Generalship -- Canadian Corps Legacy and Loss of Professionalism -- Montgomery in Command of British Formations -- Canada's Erratic March to War -- Dagger Pointed at the Heart of Berlin -- Inspecting the Canadian Corps -- Military Godfather of the Canadian Army -- Montgomery and Dieppe -- Monty's Eighth Army and Canadians -- Handling Canadians in Normandy -- Cracking German Lines -- First Canadian Army's Greatest Contribution to Allied Victory -- Canadian Army Triumph -- Canadian Army Monty Men.
  note: John A. English.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Viscount
      name part: Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery
      name part: 1887-1976
    topic: Military leadership
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Canada.
      name part: Canadian Army.
  subject:
    topic: Generals
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: Canada
  classification: DA69.3.M56 E54 2021
  classification: 940.54/1271092
  identifier: 1487506996
  identifier: 9781487506995
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 210320
    record change date: 20220105170513.0
    record identifier: in00004362091
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng