Vimy: The Battle and the Legend
Why does Vimy matter? Tim Cook, Canada’s foremost military historian and a Charles Taylor Prize winner, examines the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and the way the memory of it has evolved...
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Canada’s War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-1945
Canada’s transformation during World War II is an amazing piece of history, still recounted best by award-winning writer and scholar, J.L. Granatstein. Canada’s War remains the only account of the domestic and world politics...
Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was...
Fearsome Battle: With The Canadian Army In World War Ii Europe
The main character of this remarkable book tells what it was like to exist as an infantry soldier under the horrific life and death situations encountered on the World War II battlefield. Robert Rogge,...
Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy
Fields of Fire offers a stunning reversal of accepted military history. Terry Copp challenges and refutes the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a ‘failure’: that the allies...
Holding Juno: Canada’s Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944
Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day...
Lucky Guy: Memoirs of a World War II Canadian Soldier
It was February, 1942, in what could be called the middle of World War II, when I received my call-up to the Armed Forces. As I remember, I was neither surprised nor concerned. The...
Maple Leaf Against the Axis
Maple Leaf Against the Axis is a compelling recounting of the Second World War and the Canadians who fought it. Here, in all its passion and drama, is the story of how the Canadian...
No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War
Historians of the First World War have often dismissed the important role of poison gas in the battles of the Western Front. Tim Cook shows that the serious threat of gas did not disappear...
Operation Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10-August 7, 1943
On July 10, 1943, twenty thousand Canadian soldiers joined two great Allied armies on the beaches of southern Sicily for Operation Husky — the first western Allied thrust to win a toehold inside HItler’s...
