Any of you folks ahve a favourite military authour and or book about Canada.
My favourite authours are terry Copps and Denis Whitaker. My favourite books are fields of Fire by Copps. It gives a whole new twist on the Normandy campaign and is a great read.
Cheers
fred
ps Regins should write one.

   

My favourite is My Father's Son by Farley Mowat. It is basically just letters from him to his parents and back, talking about the war in Italy and his escapades afterward in Europe

   

I would have to say that my favorite Military authour would have to be Mark Zuehlke, or John Keagan. Mark Zuehlke wrote a series of books about the Italian campain. He wrote the books from the levels of General all the way down to the basic Private. I've read Ortona, and am currently emersed in the Liri Vally, the last is the Gothic Line. He also wrote a book of the same nature to commemorate the 60th anaversery of D-Day. John Keagan is another great writer but focuses on the Intelegence aspect of war. The only problem is that everyonce and a while a person with a university education has to look up a couple of words in the dictionary.

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My favourite author would have to be Desmond Morton. Personally I think his book "A Military HIstory of Canada" should be required reading in any Canadian history course in high school or university - it was an actual textbook for one of the university's courses here last winter.

   

In term of solid academic history, I like: Morton, Bercuson, Keegan, Granatstein, Parker, Ambrose, Stokesbury and Deighton.

   

Thanks Fred! It's been quite a while since we've had a good run at that topic.

   

Your welcome regina. Have any of you guys read terry Copps? Very solide acedemic and he has a lot of praise for the candian army in the Normandy followup battle. As a matter of fact he cover D-day quite well.
Cheers
fred

   

Speaking of Mowat he wrote "and no birds sang" and "the Regiment" they were 2 good reads...

   

Bill Bird, Ghosts have warm Hands (42nd in WW1) RH you'd love it

   

I read Zuehkle's books...they were good...my only problem with them is all the Military jargon that he uses, just flies right over my head!

Zuehkle called Ortona Canada's little Stalingard

   

he was right. Zuelke writes well.
Cheers
fred

   

Testaments of Honour by Blake Heathcote is a good one too. Heathcote travels around Canada and interviews veterans about their experiences and turned it into a book.
Another good one is On the Battlefields Vl.1 and Vl.2. They are compilations of various Maclean's articles from WW1 and WW2.
Both are excellent reads.

   

"Find the Dragon" by Fred Heppenstall is excellent. It details the Canadian contribution in the Korean conflict and is full of truly funny anecdotes and personal stories.

   

In an update to my previous posting I read three more good books.
1) Vimy by Pierre Burton is a gripping account of the events leading up to, during and after the Battle of Vimy Ridge. (Pierre Burton is BTW Canada's know historian and authour and is a companion of the Order of Canada).
2) Next is Days of Victory by Ted Barris. It is another book where veterans of WWII recount their stories.
3) Lastly we have The D-Day Experience. It gives all the details you want from the invasion to the liberation of Paris. It also includes replica maps, top secret documents and propaganda. It was written by Richard Holmes, a proffesor at the Defense Academy of the United Kingdom.

   

I don't know who wrote this but it's a good short story.

BTW Regina....thanks for telling me about "Holding Juno"....just picked it up today......should be done within a week here.