Turning Point 1917

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, 1939-45 (2011). He is also co-editor (with Serge Marc Durflinger) of Capturing Hill 70: Canada's Forgotten Battle of the First World War (2016).Nikolas Gardner holds the Class of 1965 Chair in Leadership at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of Trial by Fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 (2003) and The Siege of Kut-al-Amara: At War in Mesopotamia, 1915-1916 (2014).

• Introduction: Turning Points and Tapestries / Douglas E. Delaney and Nikolas Gardner1 Never Over by Christmas: Meeting the Challenges of Interminable War / William Philpott2 The Blockade in 1917 / Keith Neilson3 The Imperial Munitions Board and Merchant Shipbuilding in Canada / Chris Madsen and Michael Moir4 A Question of Command: GHQ and the Dominions, 1917 / Ian F.W. Beckett5 The Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1917 / Jeffrey Grey6 "The Willing Horse Is Being Worked to Death": New Zealand's Manpower Problems and Policies during 1917 / John Crawford7 The Africanization of British Imperial Forces in the East African Campaign / Tim Stapleton8 Vimy's Consequence: The Montreal Anti-Conscription Disturbances, May to September 1917 / Serge Marc Durflinger9 The British Media and the Image of the Empire in 1917 / Mark ConnellyA Few Concluding Remarks / Douglas E. Delaney and Nikolas GardnerSelected Bibliography; Contributors; Index

All of the writings [in Turning Point 1917] are well chosen, and they underscore the fact that there is much more to properly understanding World War I than just focusing on the Western Front … [F]or aficionados of the Great War, Turning Point 1917 is a must-read. - Roger D. Cunningham (Army History)