Zombie Army
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3051-5 (ISBN)
Zombie Army tells the story of Canada’s Second World War military conscripts – reluctant soldiers pejoratively referred to as “zombies” for their perceived similarity to the mindless movie monsters of the 1930s. As Byers argues, although conscripts were only liable for home defence, they also soon came to be a steady source of recruits for active duty overseas. While Canadian generals were criticized for championing an overseas army too large to maintain through voluntary enlistment – leading inevitably to calls to send conscripts to Europe – until now there has been little satisfactory explanation for why military leaders pushed for (and why politicians accepted) such a sizeable overseas force. In the first full-length book on the subject in almost forty years, Byers combines underused and newly discovered records to argue that although conscripts were only liable for home defence, they soon became a steady source of recruits from which the army found volunteers to serve overseas. He also challenges the traditional nationalist-dominated impression that Quebec participated only grudgingly in the war.
Daniel Byers is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Laurentian University. He has published in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Canadian Military History, the Canadian Army Journal, the Bulletin d’histoire politique, and Ontario History.
Introduction
Part 1: The Historical Legacy
1 Conscription and Canadian History, 1627–1939
Part 2: The National Resources Mobilization Act and the Rise of the Big Army
2 Mobilizing Canada: The Creation of the Thirty-Day Training System, 1939–40
3 Enshrining the NRMA: Compulsory Military Service, 1940–41
4 Creating the “Big Army”: Conscription and Army Expansion, 1941–43
Part 3: Canadian Conscripts and Their Experiences During the War
5 Canada’s Zombies, Part 1: A Statistical Portrait
6 Canada’s Zombies, Part 2: Life in Uniform
Part 4: The Fall of the Big Army
7 “No stone … unturned”: The Failure of Conscription and the Big Army, 1943–44
8 Revolt or Realization? The NRMA and the Conscription Crisis of 1944
Part 5: The Aftermath
Epilogue: Conscription and Canadians in the Second World War
Appendix I: The National Resources Mobilization Act, 1940
Archival Sources Consulted; Notes; Index
Endnotes
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Canadian Military History |
Zusatzinfo | 22 b&w photographs, 10 tables, 3 maps |
Verlagsort | Vancouver |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7748-3051-4 / 0774830514 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-3051-5 / 9780774830515 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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