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The Second Battle of Ypres
​Sources

Primary Documents and Official Accounts:

G.W.L. Nicholson, Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1964.
(Available online as a PDF.)
http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=22
 
            See Chapter 3: The Battles of Ypres, 1915.

Historians’ Perspectives:
 
Introductory articles available online:
 
Legion Magazine

Ypres 1915: The First Gas Attack
September 21, 2014 by Terry Copp
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2014/09/ypres-1915-the-first-gas-attack/
 
Deadly Green Fog
March 31, 2015 by Terry Copp
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2015/03/deadly-green-fog/
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Nowhere to Hide: Chaos in the Ypres Salient
January 21, 2015 by Terry Copp
(Kitchener’s Wood)
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2015/01/nowhere-to-hide-chaos-in-the-ypres-salient/
 
Midnight Charge: The Attack on Kitcheners Wood
December 21, 2014 by Terry Copp
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2014/12/midnight-charge-the-attack-on-kitcheners-wood/
 
Legion Magazine: Canadian Military History in Perspective Series
 
The Horrors of Gas Warfare: Army, Part 53
July 1, 2004 by Terry Copp
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2004/07/the-horrors-of-gas-warfare/
 
Legion Magazine: Canada & the Victoria Cross Series
 
The Class of 1915: Part 4 of 18
July 1, 2004 by Arthur Bishop
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2004/07/the-class-of-1915/



Internet Resources:
 
Library and Archives Canada - Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918
(Contains several interviews with transcripts and photos.)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/025015-1100-e.html

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Books and Monographs and Articles:


Windsor and Sarty, “New Brunswick’s Artillery Goes to War, 1914-1915” CMH, Vol. 24, Issue 1 (available online: http://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1755&context=cmh)

Aitken, Sir Max.  Canada in Flanders, vol. 1. 1916.

Cassar, George.  Hell in Flanders Fields. 2010.

Cook, Tim.  Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1916, vol. 1, At the Sharp End.  Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007, chapters 8-12, pp. 109 - 168.

Dancocks, Daniel. Welcome to Flanders. 1989.

Dixon, John.  Magnificent But Not War. 2012.

Greenfield, Nathan.  Baptism of Fire. 2007.

Iarocci, Andrew.  Shoestring Soldiers.  2008.

Nicholson, G.W.L. Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1962, pp. 49-92.
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Sheldon, Jack.  The German Army on the Western Front, 1915.  2012.
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