Canada and the Second World War

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.

``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

• Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp, edited by Geoffrey Hayes, Mike Bechthold, and Matt SymesForeword John Cleghorn Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Terry Copp's Approach to History Mark Osborne HumphriesThe Home Front3 ""To Hold on High the Torch of Liberty"":Canadian Youth and the Second World War Cynthia Comacchio4 Fighting a White Man's War? First Nations Participation in the Canadian War Effort, 1939-1945 Scott Sheffield5 Harnessing Journalists to the War Machine: Canada's Domestic Press Censors in the Second World War Mark Bourrie6 Dangerous Curves: Canadian Drivers and Mechanical Transport in Two World Wars Andrew Iarocci7 How C.P. Stacey Became the Army's Official Historian The Writing of The Military Problems of Canada, 1937-1940 Roger SartyThe War of the Scientists8 ""Strike Hard, Strike Sure"": Bomber Harris, Precision Bombing, and Decision Making in RAF Bomber Command Randall Wakelam9 Leadership and Science at War: Colonel Omond Solandt and the British Army Operational Research Group, 1943-1945 Jason Ridler10 Wartime Military Innovation and the Creation of Canada's Defence Research Board Andrew GodefroyThe Mediterranean Theatre11 Overlord's Long Right Flank: The Battles for Cassino and Anzio, January-June 1944 Lee Windsor12 A Sharp Tool Blunted: The First Special Service Force in the Breakout from Anzio James A. Wood13 La culture tactique canadienne: le cas de l'opération Chesterfield, 23 mai 1944 Yves Tremblay14 Knowing Enough Not to Interfere: Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes at the Lamone River, December 1944 Douglas E. DelaneyNorthwest Europe15 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 Bechthold17 Operation Smash and 4 Canadian Armoured Division's Drive to Trun Angelo Caravaggio18 A History of Lieutenant Jones Geoffrey HayesThe Aftermath19 A Biography of Major Ronald Edmond Balfour Michelle Fowler20 The Personality of Memory: The Process of Informal Commemoration in Normandy Matt Symes21 An Open Door to a Better Future: The Memory of Canada's Second World War Jonathan F. VanceContributorsTerry Copp: A Select Bibliography