About the Author

Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson (1920-1980) served with the Prince Albert Volunteers and worked for the Historical Section of the Canadian military, with appointments in London and Ottawa, from 1943 until his retirement in 1961. He is the author of Marlborough and the War of the Spanish Succession, The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945, and The Fighting Newfoundlander. Mark Humphries is associate professor of history and Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Reviews

"More than fifty years after it was first published, Nicholson' s official army history still remains the definitive account of the Canadian Expeditionary Force' s operations during World War I." Mark Zuehlke, author of The Canadian Battle Series