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With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the concerns of
Canadians in the year following the Great War: the treatment of
veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the rising farm
lobby; the role of labour; the place of children; the influenza
pandemic; the country's international standing; and commemoration
of the fallen. Even as the military stumbled through massive
demobilization and the government struggled to hang on to power, a
new Canadian nationalism was forged. This fresh perspective on the
concerns of the time exposes the ways in which war shaped Canada -
and the ways it did not.
Written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the country's leading political
and military historians, Canada's Army traces the full
three-hundred-year history of the Canadian military. This
thoroughly revised third edition brings Granatstein's work up to
date with fresh material and new scholarship on the evolving role
of the military in Canadian society. It includes new coverage of
the War in Afghanistan; NATO deployments to Poland, Latvia, and
Iraq; aid to the civil power deployments; and the role of the army
reserve. Masterfully written and passionately argued, Canada's Army
offers a rich analysis of the political context for the battles and
events that shape our understanding of the Canadian military.
Canada at War explores the impact of the two world wars on Canada
and Canadians by examining conscription, foreign policy, and
politics, with William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's
longest-serving prime minister, acting as the book's central
figure. In this collection of essays, J.L. Granatstein brings
together research from archives in Canada and abroad, illuminating
Canada's political transition from the British to American sphere
of influence in the first half of the twentieth century.
Granatstein reflects on the most significant issues affecting
Canadians during the wars, showing how this period ushered change
into the Canadian landscape and transformed Canada into the country
that it is today.
Why was Canada not preparing for the Second World War when the rest
of the world was ready to meet Hitler’s threats? Despite
Canada’s active participation in the First World War, which many
claimed made Canada a nation, the country was almost defenceless in
September 1939 when war was declared again. Larry D. Rose, a
long-time journalist and a military specialist, examines the
military’s own failures, the hidden agenda of Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King, and the divisions within Canada
leading up to Canada’s entry into the war. He suggests that the
lack of preparedness was directly responsible for two of Canada’s
costliest military defeats: the battle of Hong Kong and Dieppe.
Originally published in 1993, The Generals has received resounding
praise for its relevance, depth, and scholarship. A detailed
account of Canada's military at a crucial time in history, the book
focuses on the personalities, politics and pressures that define
Canada's involvement in WW2. By examining closely the remarkable
individuals who fought and won WW2, this book will once again give
Canadians an objective, unfiltered look at our leadership during
this vital period in our military history. It is the only book of
its kind on this subject and remains an invaluable resource for
academics, policy makers and anyone interested in Canada's military
history.
Professor Granatstrin's book is a fascinating account of the
Conservative party's struggle for survival during the Second World
War. In some respects a new departure in Canadian history and with
some startling parallels to present-day events and personalities in
Canadian politics, it is the first full-length look at a major
party during a critical period of our history. Lively writing and a
wealth of documentation that has only recently become available
help to make it one of the most interesting studies to be published
in this field.
Three-quarters of a century after the Second World War, almost all
the participants are gone. This book contains interviews with and
about the Canadian generals who led the troops during that war.
Edited and introduced by one of the foremost military historians of
our time, this carefully curated collection brings to life the
generals and their wartime experiences. The content is revealing
and conversations frank. Peers and subordinates alike scrutinize
key commanders of the war, sometimes offering praise but often
passing harsh judgment. We learn of their failings and successes -
and of the heavy weight of command borne by all.
Written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the country's leading political
and military historians, Canada's Army traces the full
three-hundred-year history of the Canadian military. This
thoroughly revised third edition brings Granatstein's work up to
date with fresh material and new scholarship on the evolving role
of the military in Canadian society. It includes new coverage of
the War in Afghanistan; NATO deployments to Poland, Latvia, and
Iraq; aid to the civil power deployments; and the role of the army
reserve. Masterfully written and passionately argued, Canada's Army
offers a rich analysis of the political context for the battles and
events that shape our understanding of the Canadian military.
Pierre Trudeau and most of his contemporaries at home and abroad
are now dead. This book offers reflections on Canadian foreign,
trade, and defence policies from interviews with many of the key
policy makers, diplomats, and military officers in the Trudeau
government. Conducted more than three decades ago, the interviews
are informative and revealingly frank. They also offer personal
insights into Trudeau himself – a man of great “esprit,” who
often embodied contradiction. A unique resource, this book adds
immeasurably to our understanding of the Trudeau era. It also has
much to tell us about Canada and the world from 1968 to 1984.
In these lively, timely, and contentious essays J.L. Granatstein
takes on one of the ?hoary central myths? of Canadian history and
historiography: that the Liberals sold out Canada to the United
States. It is a myth, he claims, perpetuated by Conservative
historians such as David Creighton and George Grant, and by
socialists like James Laxer. The original villain of this
long-running melodrama is not the Liberals, the author maintains,
but Britain.
Focusing on events surrounding the first and second world wars
and the old War, Granatstein argues that Canadian governments, both
Liberal and Conservative, turned to the south of economic ties only
when their efforts to form such ties with Britain failed, and for
defence only when Britain was too weak to guarantee Canadian
security.
As Canadians continue to argue with each other about the
benefits of a cosier relationship with out American cousins,
Granatstein provides a salutary reminder that the historical roots
of the debate stretch not only across the forty-ninth parallel but
back across the Atlantic too.
In the 1960s, A.B. Hodgetts in his groundbreaking "What Culture?
What Heritage?" bemoaned the loss of our history. Some 30 years
later, in this brilliant and impassioned new evaluation, J.L.
Granatstein points to an even more appalling situation in both the
educational system and in our daily lives. As he argues so
articulately, Canada is one of the few nations in the Western world
not to teach its history to its young people and to its new
citizens. The result: a nation that does not understand and respect
its own past. How bad is the situation? In a 1997 survey at York
University's Glendon College, 66% of first-year students could not
name a Canadian author, most could not name the first English- and
French-speaking Prime Ministers, over 50% could not give the date
of Confederation. In a Dominion Institute Poll of the same year,
77% were unaware that Remembrance Day commemorated the end of the
First World War and only 10% could identify the Quiet Revolution.
What is worse, when history is taught in our schools, it is too
often processed through the filter of political correctness. Who is
responsible for this unthinking conspiracy to eliminate our
history? Granatstein lays the blame with a number of culprits:
schools that are too busy teaching trendy subjects, and dealing
with the needs of recent immigrants; universities where history has
been reduced to a series of arcane subjects; ministries of
education that have dropped Canadian history as a required course
and approved "dumbed-down" textbooks; the federal government with
its misguided multicultural policies; even the media, which should
be above political pressures, too often uses history to search for
villainy. Granatstein shows that other countries, much older than
Canada, have understood how to treat history as a necessary and
important condition of existence. He offers wise and reasoned
solutions to a problem that undermines our sense of ourselves at a
time when national understanding is essential. Parents who want
their children well-educated, educators who face difficult
decisions, policy makers who balance many needs and all those who
care about their country must read this book.
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