I can't remember exactly what I was looking for - probably links to stories about Carpiquet - but earlier this month I stumbled across the CBC Digital Archives website, specifically for the "On This Day" material for 4 July. In this case, the highlighted piece is a five-minute radio clio from Matthew Halton recorded during the launch of the Canadian assault on the German positions at Carpiquet Airfield on 4 July 1944. Listed on the same page are links to radio pieces about Buzz Beurling and V-E Day celebrations in Canada. Amongst several search categories is "War and Conflict", the overarching category containing some 809 radio and television pieces. Some are contemporary to the subject, others remembrances by veterans and others. Deeper examination would clearly produce other very interesting items to students of Canadian military history.
About Me
- Ken
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Just a Canadian military historian trying to make his way through the twists and turns of his craft.
Blogroll and Other Links
- * Australian War Memorial
- * Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
- * Canadian Historical Association
- * Centre for Battlefield Archaeology
- * Centre for First World War Studies
- * Christopher Moore's Canadian History
- * Historic battlefields (War in the 20th century)
- * International Society for First World War Studies
- * Investigations of a Dog
- * Kings of War
- * Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies
- * The Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group
- * The Torch (blog)
Last Ten Military History Books Read
- * Altner, Helmut. Berlin Dance of Death. Havertown, PA, 2002.
- * Black, Jeremy. War: A Short History. London, 2009.
- * Chantler, Scott. Two Generals. Toronto, 2010.
- * Morton, Desmond. A Peculiar Kind of Politics: Canada's Overseas Ministry in the First World War. Toronto, 1982.
- * Armstrong, John Griffith. "Canadian Home Defence, 1914-1917, and the Role of Major-General Willoughby Gwatkin". MA thesis, RMC, 1982.
- * Maroney, Paul J. "Recruiting the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Ontario, 1914-1917." MA thesis, Queen's U, 1991.
- * Hitsman, J. Mackay. The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History. Toronto, 1999.
- * Day, Adam. Witness to War: Reporting on Afghanistan, 2004-2009. Ottawa, 2010.
- * Horn, Colonel Bernd. No Lack of Courage: Operation Medusa, Afghanistan. Toronto, 2010.
- * Cook, Tim. The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie. Toronto, 2010.
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