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Canada & the Second World War

Editat de Geoffrey Hayes, Mike Bechthold, PhD Symes, Matt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2012
Terry Copp's tireless teaching, research, and writing has challenged generations of Canadian veterans, teachers, and students to discover an informed memory of their country's role in the Second World War. This collection, drawn from the work of Terry's colleagues and former students, considers Canada and the Second World War from a wealth of perspectives. Social, cultural, and military historians address topics under five headings: The Home Front, The War of the Scientists, The Mediterranean Theatre, Normandy/Northwest Europe, and The Aftermath. The questions considered are varied and provocative: How did Canadian youth and First Nations peoples understand their wartime role? What position did a Canadian scientist play in the Allied victory and in the peace? Were veterans of the Mediterranean justified in thinking theirs was the neglected theatre? How did the Canadians in Normandy overcome their opponents but not their historians? Why was a Cambridge scholar attached to First Canadian Army to protect monuments? And why did Canadians come to commemorate the Second World War in much the same way they commemorated the First? This book continues to challenge, confound, and surprise. In the questions it poses, the evidence it considers, and the conclusions it draws, this important collection says much about the lasting influence of the work of Terry Copp.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781554586295
ISBN-10: 1554586291
Pagini: 500
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 228 x 158 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Table of Contents for
Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp, edited by Geoffrey Hayes, Mike Bechthold, and Matt Symes

Foreword | John Cleghorn

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Terry Copp's Approach to History | Mark Osborne Humphries

The Home Front

3 "To Hold on High the Torch of Liberty":Canadian Youth and the Second World War | Cynthia Comacchio

4 Fighting a White Man's War? First Nations Participation in the Canadian War Effort, 1939-1945 | Scott Sheffield

5 Harnessing Journalists to the War Machine: Canada's Domestic Press Censors in the Second World War | Mark Bourrie

6 Dangerous Curves: Canadian Drivers and Mechanical Transport in Two World Wars | Andrew Iarocci

7 How C.P. Stacey Became the Army's Official Historian The Writing of The Military Problems of Canada, 1937-1940 | Roger Sarty

The War of the Scientists

8 "Strike Hard, Strike Sure": Bomber Harris, Precision Bombing, and Decision Making in RAF Bomber Command | Randall Wakelam

9 Leadership and Science at War: Colonel Omond Solandt and the British Army Operational Research Group, 1943-1945 | Jason Ridler

10 Wartime Military Innovation and the Creation of Canada's Defence Research Board | Andrew Godefroy

The Mediterranean Theatre

11 Overlord's Long Right Flank: The Battles for Cassino and Anzio, January-June 1944 | Lee Windsor

12 A Sharp Tool Blunted: The First Special Service Force in the Breakout from Anzio | James A. Wood

13 La culture tactique canadienne: le cas de l'opération Chesterfield, 23 mai 1944 | Yves Tremblay

14 Knowing Enough Not to Interfere: Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes at the Lamone River, December 1944 | Douglas E. Delaney

Northwest Europe

15 No Ambush, No Defeat: The Advance of the Vanguard of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 7 June 1944 | Marc Milner CORRECTION: Free download of updated version of Chapter 15

16 Defending the Normandy Bridgehead: The Battles for Putot-en-Bessin, 7-9 June 1944 | Mike Bechthold

17 Operation Smash and 4 Canadian Armoured Division's Drive to Trun | Angelo Caravaggio

18 A History of Lieutenant Jones | Geoffrey Hayes

The Aftermath

19 A Biography of Major Ronald Edmond Balfour | Michelle Fowler

20 The Personality of Memory: The Process of Informal Commemoration in Normandy | Matt Symes

21 An Open Door to a Better Future: The Memory of Canada's Second World War | Jonathan F. Vance

Contributors

Terry Copp: A Select Bibliography