Canadians Behind Enemy Lines 1939 1945

Author : Roy MacLaren
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842415
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939-1945 written by Roy MacLaren and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, almost one hundred Canadians served the Allied forces by passing as locals in occupied countries. At the behest of two British secret services, these men made language and custom their costumes. They risked their lives assisting resistance groups in sabotage and ambush missions or in smuggling Allied airmen out of occupied territories. Quiet heroes of the war, these bold Canadians helped to make the brutal and unrelenting warfare of the underground a potent weapon in the Allied arsenal. This is a study of unstinting personal courage in the face of overwhelming odds.

Author : Roy MacLaren
Publisher : Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939-1945 [sound Recording] written by Roy MacLaren and published by Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library. This book was released on 1981 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Juliette Pattinson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526162237
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind enemy lines written by Juliette Pattinson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography, as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary experiences of male and female agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second World War. With its original interpretation of a wealth of primary sources, it examines how these ordinary, law-abiding civilians were transformed into para-military secret agents, equipped with silent killing techniques and trained in unarmed combat. This fascinating, timely and engaging book is concerned with the ways in which the SOE veterans reconstruct their wartime experiences of recruitment, training, clandestine work and for some, their captivity, focusing specifically upon the significance of gender and their attempts to pass as French civilians. This examination of the agents of an officially-sponsored insurgent organisation makes a major contribution to British socio-cultural history, war studies and gender studies and will appeal to both the general reader, as well as to those in the academic community.

Author : Anne Sharp Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538102560
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of World War II written by Anne Sharp Wells and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of World War II: The War Against Japan, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and more than 500 cross-referenced entries on the military, diplomatic, political, social, economic, and scientific aspects of the war, in addition to the lives of the people who participated in and directed the war.

Author : Asa McKercher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350036781
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada and the World since 1867 written by Asa McKercher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of Canada's role in the world as well as the impact of world events on Canada. Starting from the country's quasi-independence from Britain in 1867, its analysis moves through events in Canadian and global history to the present day. Looking at Canada's international relations from the perspective of elite actors and normal people alike, this study draws on original research and the latest work on Canadian international and transnational history to examine Canadians' involvement with a diverse mix of issues, from trade and aid, to war and peace, to human rights and migration. The book traces four inter-connected themes: independence and growing estrangement from Britain; the longstanding and ongoing tensions created by ever-closer relations with the United States; the huge movement of people from around the world into Canada; and the often overlooked but significant range of Canadian contacts with the non-Western world. With an emphasis on the reciprocal nature of Canada's involvement in world affairs, ultimately it is the first work to blend international and transnational approaches to the history of Canadian international relations.

Author : Rebecca Kenneison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350118583
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Special Operations Executive in Malaya written by Rebecca Kenneison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated Japanese-occupied Malaya. There they worked with Malayan guerrilla groups, including the communist-sponsored Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), regarded as the precursor of the communist insurgent army of the Malayan Emergency. This book traces the development of SOE's Malayan operations, and analyses the interactions between SOE and the various guerrilla groups. It explores the reasons for and the extent of Malay disillusionment with Japanese rule, and demonstrates how guerrilla service acted as a training ground for some later Malay leaders of the independent nation. However, the reports written about the MPAJA by SOE operatives just after the war failed to draw out the likely future threat posed by the communists to the returning colonial administration. Rebecca Kenneison shows that the British possessed a wealth of local information, but failed to convert it into active intelligence in the period prior to the Malayan Emergency. In doing so she provides new insights into the impact of SOE on Malayan politics, the nature of Malayan communism's challenge to colonial rule, and British post-war intelligence in Malaya.

Author : Timothy Wilford
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774821248
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada's Road to the Pacific War written by Timothy Wilford and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1941, Japan attacked multiple targets in the Far East and the Pacific, including Canadian battalions stationed in Hong Kong. The disaster suggested that the Allies were totally unprepared for war. This book dispels that assumption by offering the first in-depth account of Canadian intelligence gathering and strategic planning on the eve of the Pacific War. Canadians worked closely with their US and Allied counterparts to develop a picture of Japan’s intentions and a strategic plan to meet challenges in the Pacific. Although Canada wanted to avoid conflict with Japan until US participation was assured, policy makers anticipated action in the Pacific and made preparations for defence, which included the internment of Japanese Canadians. By highlighting Canada’s role as a Pacific power, Timothy Wilford sheds new light on events that led to the crisis in the Far East, as well as to the creation of the Grand Alliance.

Author : Nathan M. Greenfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten written by Nathan M. Greenfield and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of Canadian servicemen, merchant mariners and civilians who survived imprisonment behind enemy lines during the Second World War.

Author : Barry Broadfoot
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : PaperJacks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six War Years, 1939-1945 written by Barry Broadfoot and published by Don Mills, Ont. : PaperJacks. This book was released on 1976 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadians at War 1939-1945 written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: