Summary Part of Leaders and Leadership Week My guest is Major John Rickard currently serves in the Professional Military Education Section at the Canadian Army Command and Staff College. Major Rickard has a PhD in Military History from the University of New Brunswick, is an adjunct professor at RMC and has taught at American Military University (AMU). He is the author of five books including The Price of Command: Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939-1943 and Advance and Destroy: Patton as Commander in the Bulge which won the 2011 US Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing award for operational/battle history. He is currently completing a study entitled 'Simonds's Lieutenants: A New History of the Normandy Campaign', due for publication in 2021. Lieutenant General Guy Granville Simonds commanded the II Canadian Corps in Normandy in the battles south of Caen such as Totalise and Tractable. He later served as acting commander of the First Canadian Army, leading the Allied forces to victory in the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. John will talk about Simonds's leadership qualities in Normandy and his still controversial dismissal of Major-General Kitching of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division in August.

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