| Description |
1 online resource (501 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1 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 |
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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 |
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Northwest Europe. 15 No Ambush, No Defeat The Advance of the Vanguard of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 7 June 1944 / Marc Milner -- 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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Terry Copp's tireless teaching, research, and writing has challenged generations of Canadian veterans to discover an informed memory of their country's role in Second World War. This title presents a collection, drawn from the work of Terry's colleagues and former students, and considers Canada and Second World War from a wealth of perspectives |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Text chiefly in English. Includes 1 essay in French |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military campaigns
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Copp, Terry, 1938- honouree
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Hayes, Geoffrey, 1961- editor.
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Bechthold, Michael, 1968- editor
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Symes, Matt, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781554586455 |
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1554586453 |
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9781554586462 |
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1554586461 |
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9781554586295 |
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1554586291 |
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