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Book Synopsis 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?
The study of Canada in the Second World War 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.
Foreword by John Cleghorn.
Trade Review``In one sense, the book...is a simple but elegant testimony by colleagues and former students to [Terry Copp's] eminence as a scholar and teacher; on another, it speaks loudly about the vibrancy and depth of Canadian military history that has developed over the past quarter century.'' -- Brian JC McKercher, Royal Military College, Kingston, ON -- Cercles, 2014
``This ... collection of essays ... asks familiar questions but provides new answers.... While many of the essays take a traditional military history approach and come to new insights through a careful reinterpretation of the sources, other sections also deal with the social and political history of the home front and the cultural impact of the war and its aftermath.... This volume provides much that is new and interesting about Canada's war effort, embracing different historical approaches but emphasizing the importance of evidence-based historical interpretation. Terry Copp has taught his students well, and this book is a fitting Festschrift honoring his distinguished career.'' -- Angelike Sauer, Texan Lutheran University -- Yearbook of German American Studies, Spring 2015
Table of Contents
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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 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
