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The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was Canadäs most decorated regiment in the Second World War. In The Regiment, Farley Mowat, famed novelist and member of the regiment, movingly recounts the story of the Hasty Ps, telling the story of his fellow soldiers and their vital role in the Allied conquest of Italy.
List of contents
- Foreword by Lieutenant-Colonel Shawn D. McKinstry, OMM, CD
- Introduciton by Lee Windsor
- The Regiment
- Foreword to the Original Edition
- Prelude: The Years Before
- 1 Phoenix in Uniform
- 2 The Tiger in Their Midst
- 3 "Cook's Tour"
- 4 "The Waiting Years"
- 5 The Hour Strikes
- 6 The Sands of Sicily
- 7 Death Valley
- 8 Montgomery's Mountain Goats
- 9 The Flavour of Defeat
- 10 A Trap Unsprung
- 11 Interlude in the Apennines
- 12 The River of Blood
- 13 Battle of the Bulge
- 14 Winter Front
- 15 The Road to Rome
- 16 The Regiment at Rest
- 17 The Gothic Line
- 18 Gateway to the Plains
- 19 Across the Rubicon
- 20 Betrayal
- 21 Operation Chuckle
- 22 The Battle Without End
- 23 Resurrection
- 24 The End in View
- Aftermath: The Years Ahead
- Glossary
- Index
About the author
Farley Mowat (1921-2014), a famed Canadian writer, was the author of forty-five books, including fiction, history, and environmental works. Several of his books, including Never Cry Wolf, were made into films. Mowat was a winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature, and also a recipient of the Order of Canada and an inductee of the Canadian Walk of Fame. Lee Windsor is Deputy Director of The Brigadier Milton Gregg VC Centre for the Study of War and Society and holds the Fredrik S. Eaton Chair in Canadian Army Studies at the University of New Brunswick.
