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Legacy Of Courage: Calgary’S Own 137th Battalion By Fred Bagley And Dr. H.D. Duncan [Review], R. Bruce Mcintyre

Canadian Military History

Review of Fred Bagley & Dr. Harvey Daniel Duncan, A Legacy of Courage: Calgary's Own 137th Overseas Battalion, CEF. Calgary: Pulp Street Books, 1994.

Red Coats & Grey Jackets: The Battle Of Chippawa, 5 July 1814 By Donald E. Graves [Review], George Sheppard

Canadian Military History

Review of Donald E. Graves, Red Coats & Grey Jackets: The Battle of Chippawa, 5 July 1814. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994.

The Battle Of The Generals: The Untold Story Of The Falaise Pocket By Martin Blumenson [Review], Paul Dickson

Canadian Military History

Review of Martin Blumenson, The Battle of the Generals: The Untold Story of the Falaise Pocket: The Campaign that Should have won World War II. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993.

Fantassin: Pour Mon Pays, La Gloire Et… Des Prunes By Charly Forbes [Review], Gil Drolet

Canadian Military History

Review of Charly Forbes, Fantassin: pour mon pays, la gloire et… des prunes. Sillery: Les Editions du Septentrion, 1994.

Ike And Monty: Generals At War By Norman Gelb [Review], J.L. Granatstein

Canadian Military History

Review of Norman Gelb, Ike and Monty: Generals at War. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1994.

Tommy Atkins, We Never Knew Ye: Documenting The British Soldier In Canada, 1759–1871: Military Organization And The Archival Record, Timothy Dubé

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

Charles Comfort: Soldiering Artist 1943–1945, Mary Mackie

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

The Capture Of The Abbaye D’Ardenne By The Regina Rifles, 8 July 1944, Gordon Brown

Canadian Military History

The ancient Abbaye d’Ardenne is a monastery, several centuries old, surrounded by solid stone walls and having a number of out-buildings as part of the complex. It is located j u s t beyond the northern outskirts of the city of Caen in Normandy. Our attack was to take place on the 8th of July after heavy bombers dropped tons of bombs on the city of Caen on the evening of 7 July. We would have about 1,000 artillery guns to provide creeping barrages and heavy stonks on German positions and the support of about 20 tanks, if they succeeded …

How The War Ended, L.M. Sebert

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

The Dutch Underground In Barneveld—Occupation To Liberation, R. Currelly

Canadian Military History

This is an account of the activities of the Dutch Underground in the area of Barneveld as given to Captain R.T. Currelly, 1st Canadian Field Historical Section, by the District Commander of Barneveld and another official in the same area in May 1945.

The Rise And Fall Of Canadian Military Assistance In The Developing World, 1952–1971, Greg Donaghy

Canadian Military History

Since the end of the Second World War, military assistance has emerged as an important instrument of international diplomacy. Initially employed by the United States in Europe, Latin America and Asia for a variety of economic and political reasons in the mid-1940s, by the end of the decade American military assistance had been fashioned into a coherent program “whose principal goal was the containment of Communist expansion.” By the mid-1950s, both the Soviet Union and Communist China had responded with their own assistance programs designed to woo the developing states of Asia and Africa. As Britain and France dissolved their …

The Calgary Tanks At Dieppe, Hugh G. Henry

Canadian Military History

Since 1942 the Dieppe Raid has been the subject of much controversy and debate concerning its political and military background, aims, plans, execution and supposed “lessons learned.” Although historians have documented their arguments well, they have not examined accurately or in any detail the operations of The Calgary Regiment (Tank), 14 Canadian Army Tank Regiment (14 CATR), Canadian Armoured Corps. Some misunderstandings and myths concerning the tanks and men, their performance and conditions affecting their actions, must be dispelled. At this point it is worth noting that not only was 14 CATR the first Canadian armoured unit ever to go …

Hmcs Prince Robert: The Career Of An Armed Merchant Cruiser, C.R. Shelley

Canadian Military History

HMCS Prince Robert was one of three identical ships used as armed merchant cruisers (AMCs) by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the Second World War. On the eve of war, Canada had but six modern destroyers, with no prospect of additional ships for some time. To fill the desperate need for escorts, the Naval Service clutched at Prince Robert and her two sister liners as an expedient in a time of crisis; yet, by war’s end she would be one of the most sophisticated ships of the RCN. Much like the citizen sailors who mannered her, she signed up …

The Liberation Of Leesten, Henk Dykman

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

“Where Are Our Liberators?”: The Canadian Liberation Of West Brabant, 1944, Geoffrey Hayes

Canadian Military History

Canadian historians of the Second World War have long been interested in a strategic debate that has waged since 1944: should the Allies have exploited the success of the capture of Antwerp, then the largest port in Northwest Europe, by clearing its western approaches; or should they have sought to “leap” the German defenses along the Rhine, in the ill-fated Operation “Market Garden.”

All Canadian writers on the issue are agreed that the decision to go ahead with “Market Garden” held important consequences for the soldiers of First Canadian Army. As British and American forces turned northeast of Antwerp in …

The Cherry Beret By Ashton L. Kerr [Review], Markus C. Martin

Canadian Military History

Review of Colonel Ashton L. Kerr, MD, The Cherry Beret: Distant recollections of World War II as remembered by one of the first Canloan officers. Published privately.

Painting The Map Red: Canada And The South African War, 1899–1902 By Carmen Miller [Review], Sidney Allinson

Canadian Military History

Review of Carman Miller, Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.

Achilles In Vietnam: Combat Trauma And The Undoing Of Character By Jonathan Shay [Review], James C. Lawless

Canadian Military History

Review of Jonathan Shay, MD, Ph.D., Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York: Antheneum, 1994.

When Your Number’S Up: The Canadian Soldier In The First World War By Desmond Morton [Review], Nick Gardner

Canadian Military History

Review of Desmond Morton, When Your Number's Up: The Canadian Soldier in the First World War. Toronto: Random House, 1993.

The Generals: The Canadian Army’S Senior Commanders In The Second World War By J.L. Granatstein [Review], Gil Drolet

Canadian Military History

Review of J.L. Granatstein, The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1993.