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117 produkter
Watching the Bear
Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964
Av Alan Barnes
Häftad, 2026
403 kr
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As the Soviet threat to North America evolved in the early Cold War, the world was watching. What was the view from Ottawa? Watching the Bear begins to tell that story. Alan Barnes, a twenty-five-year veteran of the Canadian intelligence community, draws on recently declassified archival sources to …
Fight or Pay
Soldiers' Families in the Great War
Inbunden, 2004
514 kr
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Our slogan has always been 'Fight or Pay.' We call upon the people to enlist or help others enlist. We sometimes say: 'If you cannot put the "I" into fight, put the "pay" into patriotism,' and that serves as a slogan on any platform.– Sir Herbert Ames, founder of the Canadian Patriotic FundUnlike …
Prisoners of the Home Front
German POWs and "Enemy Aliens" in Southern Quebec, 1940-46
Inbunden, 2005
1224 kr
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In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Five internment camps were located on the southern shores of the St. Lawrence River in the province of Quebec: at Farnham, …
Prisoners of the Home Front
German POWs and "Enemy Aliens" in Southern Quebec, 1940-46
Häftad, 2006
427 kr
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In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Five internment camps were located on the southern shores of the St. Lawrence River in the province of Quebec: at Farnham, …
Fighting from Home
The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec
Inbunden, 2006
1224 kr
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In Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, they proved themselves partners in the prosecution of Canada's war. Shared experiences and class similarities shaped responses based first and foremost in a sense of local …
Betrayed
Scandal, Politics, and Canadian Naval Leadership
Inbunden, 2006
1224 kr
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In January 1944, Vice Admiral Percy Walker Nelles was fired from his position as head of the Royal Canadian Navy. Betrayed reveals the true story behind the dismissal: a divisive power struggle between two elite groups within the RCN pitted the navy's regular officers against a small group of …
Betrayed
Scandal, Politics, and Canadian Naval Leadership
Häftad, 2007
398 kr
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In January 1944, Vice Admiral Percy Walker Nelles was fired from his position as head of the Royal Canadian Navy. Betrayed reveals the true story behind the dismissal: a divisive power struggle between two elite groups within the RCN pitted the navy's regular officers against a small group of …
Battle Grounds
The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands
Häftad, 2007
650 kr
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Base closures, use of airspace for weapons testing and low-level flying, environmental awareness, and Aboriginal land claims have focused attention in recent years on the use of Native lands for military training. But is the military's interest in Aboriginal lands new? Battle Grounds analyzes a …
Renegades
Canadians in the Spanish Civil War
Inbunden, 2008
456 kr
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Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, by veteran journalist Michael Petrou, tells the story of the 1,681 Canadians who, between 1936 and 1939, defied Canadian law to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil war. The war pitted a left leaning, democratically elected Spanish government against a …
Crisis of Conscience
Conscientious Objection in Canada During the First World War
Av Amy J. Shaw
Inbunden, 2008
456 kr
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The First World War's appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada's first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec, this has obscured the important role of those …
Crisis of Conscience
Conscientious Objection in Canada During the First World War
Av Amy J. Shaw
Häftad, 2009
427 kr
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The First World War's appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada's first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec, this has obscured the important role of those …
Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1954-2009
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Inbunden, 2010
1224 kr
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Since the mid-1950s, successive Canadian governments have grappled with the issue of Canada’s role in US ballistic missile defence programs. Until Paul Martin’s government finally said no, policy-makers responded to US initiatives with fear and uncertainty as they endlessly debated the implications …
Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1954-2009
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Häftad, 2010
427 kr
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Since the mid-1950s, successive Canadian governments have grappled with the issue of Canada's role in US ballistic missile defence programs. Until Paul Martin's government finally said no, policy-makers responded to US initiatives with fear and uncertainty as they endlessly debated the implications …
Militia Myths
Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921
Av James Wood
Häftad, 2010
427 kr
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The citizen soldier is a central figure in Canada's social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen first and a soldier only by necessity an unchanging feature of the Canadian identity? This compelling history traces the evolution of the Canadian amateur military tradition …
From Victoria to Vladivostok
Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19
Häftad, 2010
398 kr
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As the last guns sounded on the Western Front, 4,200 Canadian soldiers, some of them conscripts, travelled from Victoria to Vladivostok to open a new theatre of war in Siberia. Part of the Allied intervention in Russia's civil war, the force sought to defeat Bolshevism, but grim conditions, …
Veterans with a Vision
Canada's War Blinded in Peace and War
Inbunden, 2010
1224 kr
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History has told us something about our war dead but very little about our war wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada's war-blinded veterans, whose courage and the organization they created reshaped the way Canadians and successive governments …
Veterans with a Vision
Canada's War Blinded in Peace and War
Häftad, 2010
398 kr
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History has told us something about our war dead but very little about our war wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada's war-blinded veterans, whose courage and the organization they created reshaped the way Canadians and successive governments …
Labour Goes to War
The CIO and the Construction of a New Social Order, 1939-45
Inbunden, 2012
1094 kr
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During the Second World War, the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Canada grew from a handful of members to more than a quarter-million and from political insignificance to a position of influence in the emergence of the welfare state. What was it about the "good war" that brought about this …
Labour Goes to War
The CIO and the Construction of a New Social Order, 1939-45
Häftad, 2013
375 kr
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During the Second World War, the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Canada grew from a handful of members to more than a quarter-million and from political insignificance to a position of influence in the emergence of the welfare state. What was it about the "good war" that brought about this …
Small Price to Pay
Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-45
Av Graham Broad
Inbunden, 2013
1167 kr
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We often picture life on the Canadian home front as a time of austerity, as a time when women went to work and men went to war. A Small Price to Pay, the first full-length study of consumer culture in wartime Canada, explodes this myth of home front sacrifice by bringing to light the contradictions …
Unlikely Diplomats
The Canadian Brigade in Germany, 1951-64
Inbunden, 2013
1152 kr
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In 1951, Canada sent troops to western Europe to support its NATO allies. The brigade helped Canada establish its international status. In private, however, Canadian officials and military leaders expressed grave doubts about NATO's strategies and operational plans. Despite these reservations, they …
Death or Deliverance
Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War
Inbunden, 2013
1152 kr
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Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series often depict courts martial as brutal and inflexible, and social memories of this system of frontline justice have inspired modern movements to seek …
Death or Deliverance
Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War
Häftad, 2014
398 kr
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Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series often depict courts martial as brutal and inflexible, and social memories of this system of frontline justice have inspired modern movements to seek …
In Peace Prepared
Innovation and Adaptation in Canada's Cold War Army
Inbunden, 2014
1152 kr
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The Allies claimed victory at the end of the Second World War, but the United States' invention of the atomic bomb and its replication by the Soviet Union posed new dangers for all nations. In Peace Prepared examines what Canada's Cold War Army did to prepare for war – and why and how it did …
In Peace Prepared
Innovation and Adaptation in Canada's Cold War Army
Häftad, 2015
398 kr
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The Allies claimed victory at the end of the Second World War, but the United States' invention of the atomic bomb and its replication by the Soviet Union posed new dangers for all nations. In Peace Prepared examines what Canada's Cold War Army did to prepare for war – and why and how it did it. …
African Canadians in Union Blue
Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War
Häftad, 2014
398 kr
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Before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he added a paragraph authorizing the army to recruit black soldiers. Nearly 200,000 men answered the call. Several thousand of them came from Canada. What compelled these men to leave the relative comfort of their homes to face death on …
Unwanted Warriors
Rejected Volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Av Nic Clarke
Inbunden, 2015
456 kr
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Unwanted Warriors uncovers the history of Canada's first casualties of the Great War – men who tried to enlist but were deemed "unfit for service" by medical examiners. Condemned as shirkers for not being in uniform, rejected volunteers faced severe ostracism. Nagging guilt, coupled with self-doubt …
Maritime Command Pacific
The Royal Canadian Navy's West Coast Fleet in the Early Cold War
Inbunden, 2015
1152 kr
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The Royal Canadian Navy crews that sailed the Atlantic during the early Cold War held a contemptuous view of their West Coast brethren, likening the Pacific fleet to a "yacht club" where sailors enjoyed a life of leisurely service on a tranquil sea. As Maritime Command Pacific demonstrates, nothing …
Zombie Army
The Canadian Army and Conscription in the Second World War
Av Daniel Byers
Inbunden, 2016
1152 kr
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Zombie Army tells the story of Canada's Second World War military conscripts – reluctant soldiers pejoratively referred to as "zombies" for their perceived similarity to the mindless movie monsters of the 1930s. As Byers argues, although conscripts were only liable for home defence, they also soon …
Creating Canada's Peacekeeping Past
Inbunden, 2016
500 kr
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Peacekeeping. Despite efforts to relegate it to the past, what was once a central pillar in Canada's national identity has been making a comeback in recent years. Creating Canada's Peacekeeping Past illuminates how participation in the United Nations' peacekeeping efforts from 1956 to 1997 became …
