Politics of Command: Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939-1943

by John Nelson Rickard

Book Overview

In December 1943, Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton resigned from command of the 1st Canadian Army amidst criticism of his poor generalship and of his abrasive personality. Despite McNaughton's importance to the Canadian Army during the first four years of the Second World War, little has been written about the man himself or the circumstances of his resignation.

In The Politics of Command, the first full-length study of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487541023
• ISBN13: 9781487541026
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"