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Author: Dennis Showalter
In Hitler's Panzers, renowned World War II scholar Dennis Showalter presents a comprehensive study of Nazi Germany’s armored forces. By delving deeply into a detailed history of the theory, strategy, myths, and realities of Germany’s technologically innovative approach to warfare, Showalter looks at the military lessons of the past, and speculates on how the panzer ethos may be implemented in the future of international conflict. Interviews with soldiers, archival documents, and other information highlights the panzer’s contributions to the development of mechanized war and armor technology, their influence on the role of the army in German culture and society, and their role in the conduct of World War II.
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Author: David L. Bashow
For a variety of reasons, most Canadian military historiography in the immediate postwar period produced an incomplete, historical record in the coverage of Canadian contributions in World War Two. The major emphasis of the historical record keeping appeared to be focused on a very small area of wartime events – primarily, the role of the government in the conduct of the war. While there was “official” and “semi official” survey histories of the three services produced, there was only a limited work carried out in this area. However to be fair there were a number of personal memoirs written, usually written by senior staff, or an occasional history of a particular engagement or event.
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Author: Angus Brown and Richard Gimblett
In The Footsteps of the Canadian Corps is a fascinating book. In many ways it resembles the work done by Ken Bell in his 1970’s book Not In Vain. The basis of both books being the return to old battlefields and pictorially comparing the landscapes and locations of combat while the conflict was still fresh and there condition today. Ken Bell tackled the WWII campaign in Northwest Europe while Angus Brown and Richard Gimblett ventured further back to the European battlefields of the Canadian Corps during World War I. Here the comparison ends.
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Author: Edited by: Howard G. Coombs
When I was first asked to review this series of articles contained in this book I was most pleased to accept the task. I had a motive. During my Senior Year at Simon Fraser University I did extensive research into both the Conscription Crisis and the so-called “riots” as part of my major paper for the History program. I was eager to see what advances had been made in the intervening years. Sadly, I found that we seem to have made little progress and, in some cases, appear to have even taken a step or two backwards. We are only interested in seeing the tip of the iceberg. We forget that Discipline, as a component of morale, is a two edged sword.
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Author: Anna Porter
Every once in a very long while there comes a book that changes or challenges your understanding of events that you have previously learned. Kasztner’s Train is such a work. It tells the story of an average man who through guile, subterfuge and sheer tenacity managed to arrange with senior SS officials to have trains take hundreds of Hungarian Jews to a neutral country. Originally the SS requested that the Jewish Agency provide the Germans with 10,000 trucks. Through bravado and bluff, Kasztner managed to come to a more achievable solution and the train loads of Jews were allowed to proceed to their neutral destinations. It is also the story of the inability of the various Jewish agencies to act in concert with one another.
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