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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 |
The Home Front
3 “To Hold on High the Torch of Liberty”:Canadian Youth and the Second World War |
4 Fighting a White Man’s War? First Nations Participation in the Canadian War Effort, 1939–1945 |
5 Harnessing Journalists to the War Machine: Canada’s Domestic Press Censors in the Second World War |
6 Dangerous Curves: Canadian Drivers and Mechanical Transport in Two World Wars |
7 How C.P. Stacey Became the Army’s Official Historian The Writing of The Military Problems of Canada, 1937—1940 |
The War of the Scientists
8 “Strike Hard, Strike Sure”: Bomber Harris, Precision Bombing, and Decision Making in RAF Bomber Command |
9 Leadership and Science at War: Colonel Omond Solandt and the British Army Operational Research Group, 1943–1945 |
10 Wartime Military Innovation and the Creation of Canada’s Defence Research Board |
The Mediterranean Theatre
11 Overlord’s Long Right Flank: The Battles for Cassino and Anzio, January–June 1944 |
12 A Sharp Tool Blunted: The First Special Service Force in the Breakout from Anzio |
13 La culture tactique canadienne: le cas de l’opération Chesterfield, 23 mai 1944 |
14 Knowing Enough Not to Interfere: Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes at the Lamone River, December 1944 |
Northwest Europe
15 No Ambush, No Defeat: The Advance of the Vanguard of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 7 June 1944 | CORRECTION: Free download of updated version of Chapter 15
16 Defending the Normandy Bridgehead: The Battles for Putot-en-Bessin, 7–9 June 1944 |
17 Operation Smash and 4 Canadian Armoured Division’s Drive to Trun |
18 A History of Lieutenant Jones |
The Aftermath
19 A Biography of Major Ronald Edmond Balfour |
20 The Personality of Memory: The Process of Informal Commemoration in Normandy |
21 An Open Door to a Better Future: The Memory of Canada’s Second World War |
Contributors
Terry Copp: A Select Bibliography