Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War

Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War. SHANE B. SCHREIBER. Westport, Conn.: Praeger publishers 1997. Pp. 192, illus. $55.00

Military historians are putting aside the focus on grand strategy and the even grander folly of generals and instead paying closer attention to the tactical and technological changes in the last two years of the Great War. They have disposed of the notion that military operations in the war were uniformly formulaic and futile. In the recent Death So Noble, Jonathan Vance has shown that most Canadians accepted the myth of the Great War as a sacred sacrifice for freedom and civilization. Historians such as Tim Travers, Hubert Johnson, and Bill Rawlings are fleshing out the military side of this revisionism, so we can understand that Canadians did not share the general disenchantment with war that suffused the Western world after 1918 but also why they thought they had good reason not to be disillusioned. The Canadian Corps really was one of the outstanding...