Normandy and 'Revisionism'

Terry Copps is on my Christmas list Martin!

 

Check out Amazon. I just got Copp's most recent release "Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe 1944-1945" The description says that "continues the stopy of the operations carried out by the First Canadian Army in the last nine months of the war, and extends teh argument developed in Fields of Fire...." I am reading Tug of War by Denis Whitaker at the same time which is after Normandy as it is the fight for Antwerp and the Scheldt. He, like Copps, doesn't just tell the Canadian story, it encompasses the nationalities and personalities which were involved in the campaigns. Whitaker does include first person accounts. I've learned so much from both Copps and Whitaker that I have not read or seen in other accounts and they are thoroughly sourced. One of Whitaker's sources are the papers of Canadian General Guy Simonds which had never been previously released. As has been mentioned our knowledge of history, particularly World War II, changes (revises) as additional information is discovered and disseminated.

 

Cheers Macrusk I will check Amazon.

 

Martin - Not to pick but technically Buckley et al are post-revisionist and D'Este was the revisionist However, I do get your point. D'Este does have a lot of useful information in there. There is also a lot of information in How and even Ellis's official history is sadly underrated and has some useful bits in there.

Ross

 

I myself have both of Copps books ("Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe 1944-1945") and ('Fields Of Fire' ( University of Toronto Press, 2003 ). And I must say they are very will written. I strongly promote this book to anyone!!

 

I found this an excellent and intelligent book, that for once goes back to primary source material. Copp has written some excellent books - his guidebooks on the Canadians in NW Europe are also classics. Highly recommend.

 

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