Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Slackers, Shirkers, and Malingerers; 1 "The Blood Dimmed Tide"; 2 "Canada's New Fighting Forces"; 3 The First Canadian Conscripts in Combat; 4 Conspicuous Gallantry at Amiens; 5 "Draft Men" and the Battle of the Scarpe, 1918; 6 The Hardest Single Battle: The Drocourt-Quéant Line; 7 The Canal du Nord and the Brotherhood of Arms; 8 A Dangerous Advance Continued; 9 Cambrai and Iwuy: "For a time hell was loose"; 10 Honour and Duty in the Pursuit to Mons; 11 The Equal of the Best

Conclusion: Evidence Has a Way of Dissolving TheoriesAppendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index