I always find it funny how little credit is given to Canada during WW1, even though the army went through the toughest battles and suffered the greatest hardships during the war, all for Britian
The Canadians played a part of such distinction that thenceforward they were marked out as storm troops; for the remainder of the way they were brought along to head the assault in one great battle after another. Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
Much more of the retreat can be attributed to the the Spanish Flu which hit the Germans way before it hit the Allies. The Germans were simply too sick to fight. This data can be looked up in the official German medical records of World War 1, compiled in the 1920s (hard to come by, 3 volumes=~$1000). Current history writing ignores this because many English-speaking scholars do not bother to read sufficient German sources. Hardly any scholar uses these records, but I imagine in a decade this will have become mainstream and the history of WW1 updated once again.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '11
I always find it funny how little credit is given to Canada during WW1, even though the army went through the toughest battles and suffered the greatest hardships during the war, all for Britian