This collection, drawn from the work of Terry Copp's colleagues and former students, considers Canada and the Second World War from a wealth of perspectives.Topics addressed are: The Home Front, The War of the Scientists, The Mediterranean Theatre, Normandy/Northwest Europe, and The Aftermath.
This collection, drawn from the work of Terry Copp's colleagues and former students, considers Canada and the Second World War from a wealth of perspectives.Topics addressed are: The Home Front, The War of the Scientists, The Mediterranean Theatre, Normandy/Northwest Europe, and The Aftermath.
Geoffrey Hayes is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo and is the associate director of the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research focuses on the First and Second World Wars and Canada's role in current international conflicts. Mike Bechthold is a historian of the First and Second World Wars and an air power specialist. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and an M.A. & Honours B.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University. His most recent book is Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940-1941 (2017). Matt Symes has worked and taught extensively on the history of war and memory and is co-author of five battlefield guidebooks, including Canadian Battlefields 1915-1918: A Visitor's Guide. Symes was co-editor (with Geoffrey Hayes and Mike Bechthold) of Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp.
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Table of Contents for 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
Table of Contents for 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
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