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Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944

By Mark Zuehlke

Beginning with the First World War, the recollections of the common soldier have been given increasing credence as primary source material for Western military history. The obvious benefit of this inclusion is additional material to ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada’s 24 Hours of Destiny

By Lance Goddard

Beginning with the First World War, the recollections of the common soldier have been given increasing credence as primary source material for Western military history. The obvious benefit of this inclusion is additional material to ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations

By Howard Norman

My Famous Evening is Howard Norman’s ode to Nova Scotia, a province that has formed a significant part not only of the Vermont resident’s fiction, but of his development as a Canadian writer and storyteller ... Read More »

May 7, 2004 | Filed under: History

The War of 1812

By Victor Suthren

It’s what we do as Canadians: forget our history just as fast as we accumulate it. Jack Granatstein and the Dominion Institute have been telling us that for a couple of years now. Maybe you ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

No Day Long Enough: Canadian Science in World War Ii

By George Lindsey, ed.

If all Gaul, as the Romans had it, was divided in three parts, then all military history is divided into five. There are what we might call the serious studies, the academics’ and the theorists’ ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

War Without Battles: Canada’s Nato Brigade in Germany, 1951-1993

By Sean Maloney

If all Gaul, as the Romans had it, was divided in three parts, then all military history is divided into five. There are what we might call the serious studies, the academics’ and the theorists’ ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

Deadly Seas: The Duel Between the St Croix and U305 in the Battle of the Atlantic

By David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig

If all Gaul, as the Romans had it, was divided in three parts, then all military history is divided into five. There are what we might call the serious studies, the academics’ and the theorists’ ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

Storms of Controversy: The Secret Arrow Files Revealed, 2nd Ed.

By Palmiro Campagna

If all Gaul, as the Romans had it, was divided in three parts, then all military history is divided into five. There are what we might call the serious studies, the academics’ and the theorists’ ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

Chiefs of Defence: Government and the Unified Command of the Canadian Armed Forces

By Douglas Bland

If all Gaul, as the Romans had it, was divided in three parts, then all military history is divided into five. There are what we might call the serious studies, the academics’ and the theorists’ ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

Deadly Seas: The Story of the St Croix, the U-305 and the Battle of the Atlantic

By David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig

Deadly Seas is a good idea. David J. Bercuson is a Canadian military historian with over 30 books to his credit and Holger H. Herwig is one of the world’s foremost German naval historians. Together ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

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