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Mobilize!: Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War

By Larry D. Rose

Book information

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781459710641, 9781459710658, 9781459710665
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2783608 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-01 05:32:10
HIS006020HIS027160HistoryMilitaryNonfiction

Description

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.

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