Canada’s Enemies (Spies and Spying in the Peaceable Kingdom)
Canada’s Enemies is a curious collection of apparently unrelated stories about espionage carried out against Canada, and quasi-espionage activity carried out by Canada abroad from 1900 on. The book is well-written and some of the stories are interesting and amusing, but it…
Best-Kept Secret (Canadian Intelligence in the Second World War)
This seems just another book about Canada’s secret wartime activities and exploits. It is much more than that. It is a skillfully researched, well-constructed, clearly-presented account of Canada’s successful entry in wartime into the highly secret, arcane business of communications intelligence. It…
The Generals, the Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War
This book provides a remarkable group portrait of Canadian army senior leaders during the Second World War.
Le débarquement en Normandie le 6 juin 1944
Le 6 juin 1944 les Alliés de la seconde guerre mondiale marqueront la cinquantième anniversaire du débarquement en Normandie. En hommage aux anciens collègues qui ont participé à cette grande bataille, nous republions un poème écrit par Michel Gauvin, OC, CVO, DSO,…
An Unexpected Invitation
It happened quite some time ago: during the summer of 1958. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was still very much a going concern under the inspired and undisputed leadership of Marshal Tito. The fifteenth anniversary celebrations of the dismal failure of…
Habbakuk, Planet and All That
When I came to the East Block in 1938, I had no particular experience in filing nor in record keeping, though I had had a working acquaintance with many consecutive years of despatches, minutes and memoranda of C.O. series in the Public…
Sherwood Lett. His Life and Times
La biographie, un exercice difficile que peu parviennent à maîtriser, est à la mode. Du côté de la pire mixture dans le genre, les lecteurs rencontreront l’amateurisme partisan d’un Michel Vastel, traitant d’un Pierre E. Trudeau. Par contre, le travail sur Sherwood…
Documents on Canadian External Relations, Vol. 11 and Vol. 18
How does one set about reviewing 2322 documents collected in two massive volumes with a combined thickness of six and a half inches? Before such a presence, imposing in its rich red and black bindings with gilt lettering, the humble reviewer must…
Cairo in the War — 1939-1945
Artemis Cooper, married to the writer Antony Beevor, is the grand-daughter of Duff and Diana Cooper. Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount of Norwich, was Minister of Information in Churchill’s cabinet from 1940-42 and British Ambassador to France from 1944 to 1947.…
Theodore F.M. Newton
After a career as a university professor and a journalist, Theodore Newton joined DEA in 1947 from the Wartime Information Board. He served as Ambassador to Indonesia, Colombia and Ecuador. He died in Montreal on April 20, 1991.
