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Mobilize!
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.
[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
Mobilize! is vivid and wonderfully researched.
– Blacklock’s Reporter
– Publisher’s Weekly, Starred Review
Mobilize! is vivid and wonderfully researched.
– Blacklock’s Reporter
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Dimensions:
336 Pages
Published:
October 28, 2013
City of Publication:
Toronto
Country of Publication:
CA
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ISBN:
9781459710665
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Language:
eng
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