The History of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: Volume 1, 1759–1939 - Image 1

£47.86

McGill-Queen's University Press The History of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: Volume 1, 1759–1939

Name: The History of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: Volume 1, 1759-1939
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press
Price: 49.78 GBP
Availability: InStock

Memorials & Monuments

Price data last checked 62 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 29 days • 29 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 29 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £48 (26 days, 89.7%)

Price range: £48 - £50

Price levels: 2 different prices over 29 days

Description

In three volumes spanning centuries, Lieutenant Colonel Roman Jarymowycz recounts the story of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, the oldest Highland regiment in the country. He traces its history from the roots, when soldiers, settlers, and militia volunteers rallied to defend the southern borders of their adopted country against invasion from the United States. Drawing on diaries, letters, classified documents, and the regimental archive, Jarymowycz weaves the strands of a complex story into an epic narrative of a resolute collective of officers and men. Since its birth in 1862 as the 5th Battalion, Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada, thousands of citizens have served in the unit. In addition to securing Canada’s borders, Black Watch soldiers have fought in the South African War, both world wars, and the Korean War. They have bolstered NATO operations and United Nations peacekeeping missions, and they provided aid to the civil power during the 1997 Quebec and Eastern Ontario ice storm disaster and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Montreal-based battalion continues to serve Canada in its traditional role as a reserve infantry unit, and to this day, Black Watch soldiers frequently deploy on dangerous missions abroad. In volume 1, readers will learn of the Black Watch’s origins; its first foreign enterprise, the South African War; and a detailed account of the Great War, where the regiment evolved from the 5th Royal Highlanders to become the Canadian Black Watch, as they were known throughout the empire. The Montreal regiment trained four battalions for overseas duty, three of which participated in the greatest battles of the First World War, an unprecedented accomplishment. This volume not only offers a critical analysis of campaigns, key actions, and tactical evolution, but also includes an intimate and compelling account of the sacrifices that forged this extraordinary regiment. This monumental history of Canada’s oldest Highland regiment is at once a record of Scottish heritage, a portrait of Montreal rising as an industrial giant, and an examination of the emergence of a military culture from the Western Front.

Product Specifications

Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0228017106
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Types of Architecture > Memorials & Monuments
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 May 2023
Listed Since: 10 November 2022

Barcode

No barcode data available

McGill-Queen's University Press The History of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: Volume 1, 1759–1939

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The History of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: Volume 3, 1946–2022

Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace, Third Edition

Military Education and the British Empire, 1815–1949

It Can't Last Forever: The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War: 3 (Canadian Unit, Formation, and Command Histories)

Researching World War I: A Handbook

The Report of the Officer Development Board: Maj-Gen Roger Rowley and the Education of the Canadian Forces

Military Operations and the Mind: War Ethics and Soldiers' Well-being

Portraits of Battle: Courage, Grief, and Strength in Canada's Great War (Studies in Canadian Military History)

American Military History: A Survey From Colonial Times to the Present

Battle Lines: Canadian Poetry in English and the First World War

World War II Generation Speaks: The Things Our Fathers Saw Series, Vols. 1-3

Women, Families and the British Army 1700–1880: 5 (Routledge Historical Resources)

Routledge War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts

The Bear Went Over The Mountain (Illustrated in Color): Soviet Combat Tactics In Afghanistan

A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System: 11 (Critical Studies in Native History)

Establishing Our Boundaries: English-Canadian Theatre Criticism

Extraction Empire – Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada`s Global Resource Empire, 2017–1217

The Palgrave Handbook of Canada in International Affairs

World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919

The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command

The Maligned Militia: The West Country Militia of the Monmouth Rebellion, 1685

Redcoats to Tommies: The Experience of the British Soldier from the Eighteenth Century: 1 (Britain's Soldiers)

Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Daily Lives of Civilians during Wartime)

Letters from a Yankee Doughboy: Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker in World War I