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In December 1943, Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton resigned from command of the 1st Canadian Army amidst criticism of his poor generalship and of his abrasive personality. Despite McNaughton's importance to the Canadian Army during the first four years of the Second World War, little has been written about the man himself or the circumstances of his resignation. In The Politics of Command, the first full-length study of the subject since 1969, John Nelson Rickard analyzes McNaughton's performance during exercise SPARTAN in March 1943 and assesses his relationships with key figures such as Sir Alan F. Brooke, Bernard Paget, and Harry Crerar. This detailed re-examination of McNaughton's command argues that the long-accepted reasons for his relief of duty require extensive modification. Based on a wide range of sources, The Politics of Command will redefine how military historians and all Canadians look not only at ";Andy"; McNaughton, but the Canadian Army as well

Title The politics of command : Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian army, 1939-1943 / John Nelson Rickard.
Publisher Toronto, [Ontario]
Buffalo, [New York]
London, [England] : University of Toronto Press
Creation Date 2010
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Issued also in print.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Part One: The Making of Andy McNaughton -- Early Life and the Crucible of the First World War -- The Road to High Command -- Part Two: The Problem of Deploying the Army -- A Willingness to Fight, 1940-1941 -- From ROUNDUP to TORCH -- Practical Operations of War -- Part Three: McNaughton as Military Commander and Trainer -- The Difficulty of Training in 1940 -- The Politics of Training -- Enter Montgomery -- Exercise SPARTAN -- The Long Shadow of SPARTAN -- Part Four: The End of an Idea -- The Sicily Incident -- Broken Dagger: A Corps in Italy -- The Final Months of McNaughton's Command -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Appendices.
Extent 1 online resource (411 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2010
National Library system number 997012132150905171
MARC RECORDS
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