Mobilize!: Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War
Larry D. Rose$24.64
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dundurn Group
Published: 12/03/2013
ISBN: 9781459710641
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.42w x 0.79d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/09/2013