Battle lines : eyewitness accounts from Canada's military history /

Part of the Peter Terrill Memorial Canadiana Collection

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Granatstein, J. L, Hillmer, Norman
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. : Thomas Allen Publishers, c2004
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245 0 0 |a Battle lines :  |b eyewitness accounts from Canada's military history /  |c [edited by] J.L. Granatstein, Norman Hillmer 
260 |a Toronto, Ont. :  |b Thomas Allen Publishers,  |c c2004 
300 |a 490 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm 
500 |a Includes index 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a A First Christmas in Stalag Luft III, 1944 / Ian H. Fowler -- The Luftwaffe's Last Throw, New Year's Day, 1945 / Sergeant W.L. Large -- Battle Fatigue, February 1945 / Burton Fitch -- A Passover Seder at Cleve, Germany, March 1945 / Chaplain Sam Cass -- Free at Last: An RCAF POW Writes Home, April 1945 / Warrant Officer Don Scowen -- V-E Day in Germany, May 1945 / Gunner James P. Brady -- V-E Day in London, May 1945 / Edna Wilson -- The End of the War in London and Toronto / Captain Pat Bates and Peggy Bates -- Occupying Germany, May-June 1945 / Stanley Winfield -- I Have Just Seen Belsen, June 1945 / Squadron Leader Ted Aplin -- A Soldier's Suicide / Captain Ken Calder -- The Difficult Re-adjustment to Peace / Rodolphe Cormier -- Our Grandchildren Will Ask Us Who Liberated Us / Editor, Our Free Holland -- A Commander for Korea, August 1950 / Major-General John M. Rockingham -- The Chinese Intervene in Korea, December 1950 / Major Roderic Brian Meredith 
505 0 |a A Padre on the Tragedy of Dieppe, August 1942 / Major The Reverend Mike Dalton -- The Calgarys at Dieppe, 1942 / Grant Odum Philip -- I am a Prisoner, August 1942 / Lieutenant H.W. Hockin -- The Men Belittled Us at Every Turn, 1942 / Neva Bayliss -- A Jolly Good Chance: Trying to Escape, Hong Kong, 1942 / Sergeant John Payne -- The Sinking of the SS Caribou, October 1942 / Alex Bateman -- This Can't Last Forever : A Dieppe POW at Christmas, 1942 / Private Jack Griss -- A Day on a Bomber Squadron and a Last Letter / Flight Lieutenant F. Lawrence Parker -- The Three Rivers Regiment Lands in Sicily, July 1943 / Jack Wallace -- Doubts About General McNaughton's Abilities, 1943 / Vincent Massey -- Ike on McNaughton, Canada, and the Empire, 1943 / Captain Harry Butcher -- The Fears of German POWs, Sicily, 1943 / Major A.T. Sesia -- There is Great Hope That He is Alive: Caring for Those at Home, 1943 / James Keshen --^ 
505 0 |a Explaining War to the Home Folk, 1916:II / Harold W. Mcgill -- The Newfoundland Regiment Is Wiped Out at Beaumont Hamel, July 1, 1916 / Captain George Hicks -- He Probably Won't Try to Lead Us Again: The RFC Stages a Bombing Raid, July 1916 / Second Lieutenant John B. Brophy -- Explaining War to the Home Folk, 1916:III / Hart Leech -- Shooting Down a Zeppelin over London, October 1916 / Second Lieutenant W.J. Tempest -- An Amputee Breaks the News, 1917 / James Hepburn -- The Terrible Poignancy of War, 1917 / Archibald Mackinnon -- The Guns of Vimy / Thomas Earl Walker -- The Best Show I Have Been In / Harold W. Mcgill -- Narrow Escapes at Vimy / Major Percy Menzies -- A "Reprisal" Bombing Raid on Freiburg, Germany, April 1917 / Sub-Lieutenant Walter P. Flett -- Learning to Fly, May 1917 / Charles Hendershot -- The Call of Duty, 1917 / Private Thomas P. Harris -- The Hell of Passchendaele I: I Shivered Alongside Stephens, October 1917 / Private John P. Sudbury --^ 
505 0 |a From Valcartier to Salisbury Plains / Private William Peden -- Winter Training on the Prairies, 1915 / Robert G. Combe -- Trench Life, March 1915 / Private William Peden -- Warin in the Air, April 1915 / Anonymous -- The Canadian Battle of Ypres / Albert Edward Roscoe -- In Flanders Fields / Major John Mcrae -- An Acadian Reports from Overseas, 1915 / Private Athanase Poirier -- What an Officer Needs in the Trenches, 1915 / Lieutenant Alexander Thomas Thomson -- Training Woes in Calgary, December 1915 / Private S.E. Adam -- I Was Frightened: Dealing with Fear in the Trenches / Lieutenant James Thorpe -- We All Shook As Though We Had the Ague: A Bomber at the Front, March 1916 / Ernest M. Taylor -- Trench Life, April 1916 / Archer Toole -- Sea Sick, May 1916 / Private Michael Duggan -- Flying with the No. 7 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, in France, May 1916 / Lieutenant E.J. Watkins -- Explaining War to the Home Folk, 1916:I / Archie Mackinnon --^ 
505 0 |a General McNaughton Talks to the Prime Minister, 1939 / W.I. Mackenzie King -- A Small Boat Captain at Dunkirk, May 1940 / Rear Admiral R.W. Timbrell -- The Canadians Go to France, After Dunkirk, 1940 / Major-General Harry Foster -- Prejudice Against Aboriginals in the Navy / Max Basque -- A Nursing Sister in Britain, February 1941 / Nursing Sister Elaine Wright -- Training Seamen, 1941 / Lieutenant William H. Pugsley -- HMCS Chambly Boards a U-Boat, September 1941 / Lieutenant E.T. Simmons -- The Hong Kong Disaster, 1941 / Brigadier John H. Price -- "Studied Brutality" in Hong Kong, 1942-43 / George S. Macdonnell -- Requests for Special Privileges "Simply Not Done" / Lieutenant-General Maurice Pope -- Recruiting CWACs / Cathryne Blackley Armstrong -- Monty on Canada's Senior Officers, 1942 / Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein -- Striking Against Germany, 1942 / Dennis John Quinlan -- From Alberta to Camp Borden, 1942 / Ken Hutchinson --^ 
505 0 |a Hands Off Korea: Captain Pope and the Trotskyist Blonde, April 1951 / Harry Pope -- With the Guns in Korea, 1951 / Lieutenant Don Dalke -- Crossing the Imjin River, 1951 / Major-General John M. Rockingham -- There Sure Isn't Much News: Private Roy Dooley Writes Home from Korea, 1951 / Private Roy Dooley -- Problems in the NATO Brigade, 1953 / Lionel Shapiro -- What Problems in the NATO Brigade? / Colonel Charles P. Stacey -- Keeping the Peace in Suez, UNEF, 1959 / Captain G.R. Tomalin -- Governor General Vanier on His Beloved Vandoos / Major-General Georges P. Vanier -- The World's Most Provincial Animal: Canadian Peacekeepers Abroad, 1962 / Anonymous -- Getting Out of Egypt Ahead of the Six Day War, May 1967 -- Flight Lieutenant Michael Belcher -- Keeping Peace in a Troubled Cyprus, 1975 / Robert Burns -- At War in the Gulf, January 1991 / Lieutenant (N) Richard Gimblett -- The Canadian Airborne Regiment in Somalia, 1993 / Robert Prouse -- The Killing of Shidane Arone, Somalia, 1993 / Court Martial Testimony -- Squaring Off with Serbian Forces in Croatia, 1993 / Sergeant Paul Gelinas -- Medical Risks in Croatia, 1994 / Dr. Eric Smith -- Dealing with Serbs and Croats, 1994 / Anonymous -- The Nightmare of Rwanda and After / Anonymous -- Serving in Kosovo, 1999 / Captain Paul de Grandpre -- Making a Difference in Kosovo / Lieutenant Eleanor Taylor -- Stopping Smugglers in the Straits of Hormuz, 2002 / Anonymous -- Fighting in Afghanistan, 2002 / Stephen J. Thorne -- Operating in Kabul, December 2003 / Major Keith Cameron 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Wolfe Takes Quebec, 1759 / Anonymous -- The Battle on the Plains of Abraham / Captain John Knox -- The Assault on Detroit, 1763 / Major Duncan -- The Americans Fail to Take Quebec, 1775-76 / Sir Guy Carleton -- The Indian Way of War / Thomas Anburey -- Fighting with Brock / W.H. Merritt -- Honour and Glory / Anne Prevost -- Corporal Chretien Fights Off the Invaders, May 1813 / Captain Jacques Viger -- The Difficult British-Indian Alliance, 1813 / Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Elliott -- An Officer's Wife on a Campaign in Upper Canada, 1814 / Anonymous -- Seizing the Caroline, 1837 / Andrew Drew -- The Battle of the Windmill, 1838 / Lieutenant Andrew Agnew -- Fighting the Fenians at Ridgeway, 1866 / Captain W.D. Otter -- They Could Teach a Lesson to Many: French Canadians in the Militia, 1871 / Colonel P. Robertson-Ross -- Aboriginal Boatmen on the Nile, 1884 / Colonel Sir William Butler -- The Midland Battalion Moves to Battle, 1885 / Walter F. Stewart --^ 
505 0 |a Tank Training in England, 1943 / Brigadier-General Christopher de L. Kirby -- The Strains of High Command, 1943 / Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds -- As Tough a Go as Anything We've Encountered: Italy, December 1943 / Captain Harry Jolley -- There Are No Trenches: At Ortona, December 1943 / Gregory Clark -- Dining with Colonel Zabotin in Halifax / Leo Hamson -- The Problem of Home Defence Conscripts, 1943 / Lieutenant-General Maurice A. Pope -- Service in Italy Behind the Front, 1943 / Jack Ainsworth -- Politics and Food in the Navy, February 1944 / Fraser Mckee -- Young Offenders Emerge in Battle, 1944 / Major-General Chris Vokes -- The Rise of the Militia Officer, 1944 / Lieutenant-Colonel G.S. Currie -- The Opening of the Hitler Line Battle, Italy, May 1944 / Brigadier William Murphy -- We Are Going in Tomorrow Morning, D-Day, 1944 / Sergeant Edward Worden -- Beach Head Taken: A Journalist Lands in Normandy, June 6, 1944 / Ross Munro --^ 
505 0 |a The Hell of Passchendaele II: October 1917 / Arthur Turner -- The Hell of Passchendaele III: A Next-of-Kin Letter / Lieutenant Arthur G. Starkings -- The Hell of Passchendaele IV: The Hardest Tour I Have Ever Made / Keith Macgowan -- Bush Pilots in Uniform, 1925 / T.F. Cooper -- Strike Duty, Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1925 / Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds -- The Chief of Staff Resigns, 1927 / Agnes Macphail, MP -- The American Enemy, 1927 / Colonel J. Sutherland Brown -- The Navy Deals with Revolution in Latin America, 1932 / Rear-Admiral Frank Houghton -- The Non-Permanent Active Militia in the Great Depression / Major J. Murray Savage -- Cadet Life at the Royal Military College in the 1930s / Brigadier-General Robert Bennett -- We Owed it to Our Country, 1936, 1938 / W.I. Mackenzie King -- The Army Goes to War, 1939 / Major E.G. Weeks -- Creating the 1st Canadian Division, 1939 / Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds --^ 
505 0 |a The Trek Around Lake Superior, 1885 / Lieutenant-Colonel George T. Denison -- Letters Home from Battleford, 1885 / Harry Brock -- Fighting the Cree at Frenchman's Butte, 1885 / Captain William Parker -- A Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military college, 1898 / F.H. Maynard -- Going to War in South Africa, 1899-1900 / Tom Wallace -- Plenty of Fighting to Suit Everybody: The RCR at Paardeberg / Douglas McPherson -- A Journalist Reports on Paardeberg, February 1990 / Stanley M. Brown -- We Have to Do or Die: A Strathcona in South Africa, April 1900 / J.C. Walker -- The Volunteers Melt Away, 1900 / C.F. Hamilton -- Cavalry in South Africa / Charles and Bert Rooke -- In the Militia, 1912-14 / Arthur Turner -- HMCS Rainbow Forces the Komagata Maru out of Vancouver Harbour, July 1914 / Rear Admiral Walter Hose -- The Outbreak of War, 1914 / Albert Herbert John Andrews -- Gathering at Vlcartier / Lieutenant Alexander Thomas Thomson --^ 
505 0 |a We French Canadians Are in No Way Subordinate, 1944 / Major T.L. Bullock -- So Long Without Eat & Sleep: In the Normandy Beachhead / Trooper Ken Hutchinson -- I Saw French Women Throwing Roses: Liberation: June 1944 / Matthew Halton -- Night Flying Training in Wales, July 1944 / Pilot Officer William Watson -- Write Often and Send Grub / Jacques Gouin -- The Normandy Diary of Gunner Brady / Gunner James P. Brady -- Falaise Is at Last Ours: The Closing of the Gap, August 1944 / Frederick Griffin -- A Nursing Sister on German POWs and Canadian Slackers, September 1944 / Nursing Sister jean M. Ellis -- Outarmoured and Outgunned by the German Panthers: Tanks in Italy, 1944 / Brigadier William Murphy -- The Loyal Edmonton Regiment at the Gothic Line, September 1944 / Bill Boss -- Letters from the Mud, November-December 1944 / Lieutenant J.E. Boulet -- What the Hell is the Matter with Everything?: Manpower bungles, November 1944 / Flight Lieutenant Alex Graham --^ 
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