Review: Canada: The Big Chill
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300317 |
| Date | 01 September 1998 |
| Published date | 01 September 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
Bishop, son
of
World War
I
ace
Billy
ditional
historians
who
complain
Bishop,
was
a
spitfire
pilot
in
World
that
the
social
history
has
ignored
War
II,
a
reporter,
and
then
a
public
the
drama
of
Canada's
military
his-
relations
man. He
has
written
a
tory
should
chew
on
War
Without
number
of
enthusiastic accounts
of
Battles.
If
Arthur
Bishop
skips
over
Canada's
military
past,
including
two
centuries
of
military history
in
Canada's
Glory:
Battles
that
Forged
a
11
profiles,
Sean
Maloney
leaves
no
Nation, Our
Bravest
and
Our
Best.
war
game
unplayed, no
exercise
The
Stories
of
Canada's
Victoria
Cross
ignored,
no
hypothetical option
Winners,
and
The
Special
Hundred,
unrecounted
in
his
500-page histo-
about
the Canadians who
flew
in
ry
of
one
brigade's
experience
in
the
Battle
of
Britain.
cold
war
Germany.
In
an
appendix,
Salute!is
a
useful
collection
of
11
he
notes
'As
this
work
demonstrates,
profiles
of
military
leaders in
Cana-
Canadian
soldiers
serving
in
Ger-
da,
beginning with
three
heroes
of
many
expended
a
great
deal
of
the
War
of
1812,
Isaac
Brock,
training
time
and
effort
on
exercis-
Tecumseh,
and
Charles
de
Salaber-
es.
Though
the
exercise
narratives
in
ry,
and
including
Arthur
Currie,
the
text
are
written
as
though
they
Guy
Simonds,
and
John
Rocking-
were
battles,
it
is
important
to
note
ham
before
concluding
with
Jacques
that
live
ammunition
was
not
used
Dextraze.
The
form
has
its
obvious
in
clearly
delineated
training
areas.'
limitations,
but
Bishop
does
a
solid
It is hard
to
work
up
a
great
deal
job
of
popular
history.
of
excitement
about
such
a
detailed
account
of
a
peacetime army.
How-
WAR
WITHOUT
BATTLES
ever,
woven
through
this
microcos-
Canada's
NATO
brigade
in
Germany,
mic
account
is
the
story
of
Canada's
1951-1993
commitment
to
the
cold war in
the
Sean
M.
Maloney
1950s
and
1960s
and
the
gradual
Toronto: McGraw-Hill
Ryerson,
1997,
disengagement from
Europe
in
the
xxxviii,
52
5pp,
$29.99
years
following
the
election
of
the
At
the
Senate hearings on
the
future Trudeau
government
in
1968.
of
the
Canadian
War
Museum,
Museum
officials
were
grilled
by
THE
BIG
CHILL
several
senators who
wanted
to
Canada
and
the
cold
war
know
why 'there
is
nothing
in
your
Robert
Bothwell
museum
about
my
war
experience?'
Toronto:
Irwin
and
the
Canadian
Insti-
Veterans
of
Canada's
NATO
brigade
tute
of
International
Affairs,
Contem-
in
peacetime
Germany
will
certainly
porary
Affairs
1,
1998,
xii,
116
pp,
not
have
this
complaint. Those
tra-
$17.95
paper
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