The Imperial Army Project

Douglas E. Delaney holds the Canada Research Chair in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The Soldiers' General: Bert Hoffmeister at War (2005), which won the 2007 C.P. Stacey Prize for Canadian Military History, and Corps Commanders: Five British and Canadian Generals at War, 1939-1945 (2011). He is also co-editor of Capturing Hill 70: Canada's Forgotten Battle of the First World War (2016) and Turning Point 1917: The British Empire at War (2017). Professor Delaney is a retired lieutenant-colonel who served with the First and Third Battalions, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and the Canadian Airborne Regiment.

• Introduction 1: Frameworks: Elgin, Esher, Haldane and the Idea of an Imperial Army, 1902-1909 2: The Imperial General Staff, Military Education, Army Apostles, and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India, 1904-1914 3: Growing, Controlling, and Fighting Imperial Armies, 1914-1918 4: The Strands of Cooperation, 1919-1933 5: Imperial Armies in the Period of Rearmament and Appeasement, 1933-1939 6: The Last Great Imperial War Effort, 1939-1945 Conclusion Appendices Bibliography

This work is valuable to academics and graduate students alike who study the British Empire's military effort in the twentieth century.