Camp X: Canada’s School for Secret Agents, 1941-45
David Stafford has produced an interesting, scholarly and seemingly authoritative history of Camp X, a British training camp for saboteurs, spies and guerilla fighters, set up and operated by the British near Whitby, Ontario, between 1941 and 1946.
Both My Houses
Sean O’Sullivan is an audacious, articulate, and impressively intelligent Canadian. Power, both sacred and profane, intrigues him, and his desire to participate in mainstream activities is a driving force in his character.
In Flander’s Fields: Canada in the Great War
In modern memory, the Great War is the poor cousin to the Second World War. The former is remembered as war of endless mud and unmitigated, fruitless slaughter fought to a stalemate. The latter shines forth as the victory of righteousness over…
Children Abroad
The book is notable for two reasons: it is not comprehensive, it is comprehensible. Not often do these two virtues coincide. The medical information is explained in everyday language and includes everything from shots to snake bites to schistosomiasis. Keeping a child…
What Manner of Men?
t was Carlyle who championed the biographical approach to history arguing that great events were really just the story of great men. Greatness is an elusive quality; many aspire to it but few succeed Trudeau’s long hold on office and many accomplishments…
Canada in World Affairs 1971-1973
I haven’t read all the books written about the period while I was in the Cabinet. But I read this one as a former actor would read the review by a leading critic of his stage appearances years before – with some…
Herbert Norman
Born in Japan, the son of missionaries, Herbert Norman joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1939 and served in Tokyo, Wellington and Cairo, in the latter two posts as Canadian High Commissioner and Ambassador respectively. While posted to Cairo he commited suicide…
Canada and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Last year marked the tenth anniversary of the culmination of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) with the signing of the Final Act in Helsinki. The occasion was marked with the publication of a volume entitled Canada and the…
Trade Policy in the 1980’s
World trade policy is a subject badly needing some fresh thinking and new clichés. Anyone interested in both understanding and reforming the current system can usefully study this work, which reports on a conference of international trade experts. Recent events, including the…
Management for Development
Dans cet ouvrage, Kent et Mcallister ont produit ce qu’ils appellent un “nontextbook” concis, lequel puise à même leur expérience de professeur et de gestionnaire au Canada et en Afrique. On y précise: “The thème of management for development means that emphasis…
