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Mobilize!: Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War
Larry D. Rose
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Description for Mobilize!: Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War
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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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dundurn Press Canada
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781459710641
SKU
V9781459710641
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Ref
99-15
About Larry D. Rose
Larry D. Rose spent twenty-four years at CTV News. He has worked as producer of CTV National News with Lloyd Robertson, and as news director at CTV Kitchener (now CTV Southwest). He has also worked for The Canadian Press and Global News. He lives in Toronto.
Reviews for Mobilize!: Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War
[Starred Review] The picture Rose paints in the 13 chapters of his book of a Canadian military crippled by governmental foolishness seems oddly familiar to modern eyes; underfunded armed forces and fumbled military acquisitions prove an enduring theme in Canadian history. The author's account is straightforward, well-organized, firmly presented and utterly damning.
Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
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