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
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.
This work is valuable to academics and graduate students alike who
study the British Empire's military effort in the twentieth
century.
*Brad St. Croix, Canadian Military History*
This is a hugely ambitious and successful book. In explaining how
the British imperial military coalitionworked, Delaney alsoexplains
how it was that the people of a small island off the north-west
coast of Europe were able for so long to defend an empire that
spanned the globe. It should be compulsory reading for anyone
interested in the history of the British Empire in the era of the
two world wars.
*David French, author of Raising Churchills Army: the British Army
and the War against Germany, 1919-1945. (OUP, 2000)*
How did the Imperial General Staff manage to secure the cooperation
of the sometimes fractious and increasingly autonomous Dominions
and India in standardizing the ways in which they could operate
together in war almost seamlessly? Delaneys beautifully written
study is based on extraordinarily thorough research that clearly
explains how the Imperial Army Project succeeded in moulding
Empire-Commonwealth armies that could and did fight as one through
two world wars.
*J.L. Granatstein, Author of Canadas Army: Waging War and Keeping
the Peace.*
Delaneys depth of knowledge and acute comparative analysis are on
full display with The Imperial Army Project.He pivots easily from
one national army to another, each with its own peculiarities, and
then returns to the British, who tied it all together.This is a
masterpiece of scholarship that adds exhaustive archival research
to the existing literature and creates something completely
new.
*Tim Cook, Author of Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great
War, 1917-1918 and Fight to the Finish: Canadians in the Second
World War, 1944-1945*
The Imperial Army Project is a masterful study. Douglas E. Delaney
skilfully shows how the armies of Britain, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, the Union of South Africa and India spent four decades
developing national armies that were compatible across the British
Empire. This interoperability allowed for the efficient combination
of military forces during the two world wars. Britain did not, and
need not, stand alone. The empire stood together. Indeed, it this
comparative approach that makes Delaneys a must-read work.
*Dr Karl James, Head of the Military History Section, Australian
War Memorial*
Douglas Delaney's masterly book shows that the creation of a series
of interoperable armies across the British Empire was no accident.
Rather it was the result of a highly successful imperial project
which contributed significantly to the victories won in 1918 and
1945. This book is an important contribution to both military and
imperial history.
*Gary Sheffield, Author of The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British
Army and Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and
Realities*
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