Ten Decisions Canadas Best Worst And Most Farreaching Decisions Of The Second World War Larry D Rose by Larry D. Rose 9781459738294, 1459738292 instant download after payment.

• Details the toughest decisions that shaped Canada's role in WWII, whose effects continue to this day.
• Why Canada went to war, defied Britain by organizing its own air force (and training over 100,000 cadets), pivoted to the U.S., and walked into a disaster in Dieppe.
• Presents the forgotten history of C.D. Howe, Canada's "Minister for Everything" whose wartime powers were almost unrivaled in Canada.
• How the Corvette, the "ugly little ship the Royal Canadian Navy didn't want," became an enduring symbol of victory against all odds in the Battle of the Atlantic.
• A new look at the key figures of the war, including William Lyon Mackenzie King, Guy Simonds, and Canada's leading commander, General Henry Crerar.
• Author is a seasoned journalist and popular military history writer, and has an ear for the vivid and an approachable style for the general reader or armchair historian.