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| 4547 | ZUEHLKE, Mark. Tragedy at Dieppe: Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942. 437p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2012. ISBN: 1553658353. A well written but error prone account of the operation. |
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| 3314 | SOWARD, Stuart E. Hands to Flying Stations: A Recollective History of Canadian Naval Aviation. Volume 1. xviii, 340p., bibliog., illus., index. Victoria, B.C.: Neptune Developments, 1994. ISBN: 0969722907.
Although really the history of post-war Canadian naval aviation, this has much wartime material as background to the main theme. |
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| 3315 | TINGLEY, Ken. For King and Country: Alberta in the Second World War. x, 364p., bibliog., illus. Edmonton: Provincial Museum of Alberta, 1995. ISBN: 1895073812
A well written local history full of memoirs of Albertans and with some comment both on the Dieppe and the Battle of the Atlantic. |
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| 670 | FERGUSON, Ted. Desperate Siege: The Battle of Hong Kong. x, 252p., illus., index. New York: Doubleday; Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1980. ISBN: 0385146949. Based largely on interviews with Canadian survivors, a Canadian playwright and journalist describes the “shameful tragedy” and its aftermath. Has a little naval information. |
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| 4375 | ZUEHLKE, Mark. Juno Beach : Canada's D-Day victory: June 6, 1944. 415p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005. ISBN: 1553650506. A good popular account of the Canadian experience. First volume of a trilogy which looks at the post D-Day and break out operations. Reprinted in the UK by Orca in 2012 as Assault on Juno (ISBN: 1459800362). |
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| 4481 | ZUEHLKE, Mark. Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944. 415p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005. ISBN: 1553650506. A good popular account of the Canadian experience. First volume of a trilogy which looks at the post D-Day and break out operations. |
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| 4482 | ZUEHLKE, Mark. Operation Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10–August 7, 1943. 491p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: Douglas & Macintyre, 2008. ISBN: 1553653246. A good tactical level account of Canadian involvement. |
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| 4483 | ZUEHLKE, Mark. Tragedy at Dieppe: Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942. 437p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: Douglas & Macintyre, 2012. ISBN: 1553658353. A well written but error prone account of the operation. |
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| 4546 | ZUEHLKE, Mark. Operation Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10–August 7, 1943. 491p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008. ISBN: 9781553653240. A good tactical level account of Canadian involvement. |
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| 3313 | SIMONDS, Peter. Maple Leaf Up, Maple Leaf Down: The Story of the Canadians in the Second World War. viii, 356p., illus. New York: Island, [1947].
The story of the First Canadian Army told for an American audience. It covers the landings at Dieppe, Sicily, Italy, and Normandy. |
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| 4548 | ZUEHLKE, Mark. Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day victory: June 6, 1944. 415p., bibliog., illus., index. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005. ISBN: 1553650506. A good popular account of the Canadian experience. First volume of a trilogy which looks at the post D-Day and break out operations. Reprinted in the UK by Orca in 2012 as Assault on Juno (ISBN: 1459800362). |
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| 3297 | The Tools of War 1939/45 and a Chronology of Important Events. 255p., bibliog., illus., index. Montreal: Readers' Digest, 1969. ISBN: 088850148X. A companion volume to The Canadians at War. |
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| 4595 | STACEY, C. P. Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific (Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War, Volume 1). xiii, 629p., illus., index. Ottawa: Queens Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1955 Complete coverage of the war, but excluding the Italian campaign and the final campaign in North-West Europe. Due recognition is given to naval involvement in everything from the Fall of Hong Kong to the Dieppe Raid. |
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| 4607 | STACEY, C. P. Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific (Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War, Volume 1). xiii, 629p., illus., index. Ottawa: Queens Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1955 Complete coverage of the war, but excluding the Italian campaign and the final campaign in North-West Europe. Due recognition is given to naval involvement in everything from the Fall of Hong Kong to the Dieppe Raid.
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| 970 | STACEY, C.P. The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe 1944-1945 (Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War, Volume III). xiii,770p., bibliog., illus., index. Ottawa: Queen's Printer,1960. The final volume of the trilogy which makes up the official history. Gives due coverage to naval involvement. |
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| 5065 | O’KEEFE, David. One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe. 512p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2013, ISBN: 9780345807694. A well written and researched account, which links the raid to the attempt to capture Enigma machines to assist in codebreaking. Republished by Icon Books in 2020 with the new subtitle Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe, ISBN: 9781785786303. |
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| 5135 | DUNMORE, Spencer. Above and Beyond: The Canadians’ War in the Air, 1939-1945. xii, 384p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996. ISBN: 0771029284. A wide-ranging account of wartime service with some marginal material on FAA and Coastal Command experiences. |
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| 3296 | The Canadians at War, 1939/45. 2 vols., bibliog., illus., index. Montreal: Readers' Digest, 1969. ISBN: 0888501617 (Vol.1).
A whole series of vignettes and human interest stories |
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| 3312 | PILBOROUGH, Geoff D. The Royal Canadian Air Force Marine Squadrons, Vol.1, 1935-1945. 184p., bibliog., illus. Edmonton, Alta.: Canimpex, 1996. ISBN: 898875111.
A detailed look at the Marine Branch at war. A second volume covers the post-war period. |
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| 3311 | NICHOLSON, G. W. L. More Fighting Newfoundlanders: A History of Newfoundland's Fighting Forces in the Second World War. [xv], 621p., bibliog., illus., index. St. John's, Nfld.: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1969.
Mainly concerned with Newfoundland's Royal Artillery Regiments. However a large section looks at those who served in the Navy and in the Merchant Marine, notably in the Atlantic. |
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| 3310 | MALONE, Dick. Missing from the Record. 227p. St. John's, Nfld: Collins, 1946.
The author held a variety of regimental and staff appointments in the Canadian Army. He gives some background to the various assault landings in Europe. |
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| 3309 | MCELHERAN, Brock. V-Bombs and Weathermaps: Reminiscences of World War II. xvii, [9], 3–199p., bibliog., illus., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1995. ISBN: 0773513302.
The pleasant memoir of a Canadian naval meteorologist who joined up in 1942. The bulk of the book is an evocative recollection of London in 1944 when he was wounded in a V-1 attack while training at Greenwich. |
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| 3308 | KOSTENUK, Samuel, & GRIFFIN, John. RCAF: Squadron Histories and Aircraft 1924–1968. xix, 255p., illus., index. Toronto, Samuel-Stevens, 1977. ISBN: 0888665776.
Some of the squadrons were involved in anti–submarine and other naval related duties in WWII. |
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| 3307 | GREENHOUS, Brereton et al. The Crucible of War, 1939-1945 (The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force volume III.) xxiv, 1096p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto, University of Toronto Press in cooperation with the Department of National Defence, 1994.ISBN: 0802005748.
This volume covers the RCAF squadrons and personnel serving overseas. An excellent piece of writing and research. |
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| 3306 | GREEN, Hughie. Opportunity Knocked. 224p., illus. London: Muller, 1965.
A rather rambling autobiography of the actor and host of the gameshow Opportunity Knocks. He joined the RCAF in 1941 and flew flying boats with 117 Squadron based in Nova Scotia. In late 1943 he joined 45 Group RAF Ferry Command and undertook huge and lengthy flights to deliver planes where they were needed. Has a very small amount on A/S patrols in the Atlantic. |
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| 3305 | GARDAM, John. Fifty Years After. 142p., illus. Burnstown: General Store Publishing House, 1990. ISBN: 0919431410.
Oral history, with a chapter on the RCN. Fairly anodyne. |
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| 3304 | FOSTER, J. A. Sea Wings: A Pictorial History of Canada's Waterborne Defence Aircraft. 143p., illus. Toronto: Methuen Canada, 1986. ISBN: 045880410X.
An almost entirely pictorial history of the waterborne aircraft from Stranraers to Swordfish, with a strong emphasis on WWII. |
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| 3303 | FEASBY, W. R. Official History of the Canadian Medical Services 1939–45. 2 vols., illus., index. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1953–56.
The first volume looks at individual actions and campaigns, while the second reviews specific diseases. Naval medicine is mentioned in passing throughout the work. A little plodding but very full. |
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| 3302 | DUBÉ, Timothy D. Canada at War, 1939–1945: A Survey of the Archival Holdings of the Second World War at the National Archives of Canada. 52p. Waterloo, Ont.: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, 1996. ISBN: 0969795564.
An excellent guide to the Canadian primary sources. |
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| 3301 | DOUGLAS, W. A. B., & GREENHOUS, B. Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War. 288p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: OUP, 1977. ISBN: 019540257X.
A popular and heavily illustrated critical view which pays some attention to the Canadian contribution to the war at sea. |
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| 3300 | DOUGLAS, W. A. B. The Creation of a National Air Force (The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, volume II). xix, 797p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: Toronto UP, 1986. ISBN: 0802025846.
This volume covers the years 1918–1945 and is much concerned with the role of the RCAF in the defence of Canada and in particular antisubmarine warfare. |
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| 3299 | CANADA. Department of National Defence. Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. 3 vols., illus., index. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1955–1960.
This full history gives accounts of those occasions when the operations of Army and Navy combined. |
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| 3298 | ABBOTT, K. Gathering of Demons: 407 Demon Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force, during Its First Year of Operations, Between May 8 1941 and June 30 1942 when It Was Engaged on Low Level Shipping Attacks Along the Coasts of Occupied Europe. 228p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: Inkerman House, 1987. ISBN: 096926710X.
A personal account of operations in Hudsons off the Dutch and German coasts. |
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