Complete Catalogue Spring Summer 2002 UBCPressand Agencies

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Announcing a New Series
Studies in Canadian
Military History
UBC Press, in association with the
Canadian War Museum, is pleased
to announce a new series in
Canadian military history
ALSO OF INTEREST
Death So Noble
Memory, Meaning, and the First World
War
Jonathan Vance
1997
ISBN 0-7748-0601-X
hardcover, $39.95
ISBN 0-7748-0600-1
paper, $24.95
Objects of Concern
Canadian Prisoners of War
Through the Twentieth Century
Jonathan Vance
1994
ISBN 0-7748-0520-X
paper, $25.95
Another Kind of Justice
Canadian Military Law from
Confederation to Somalia
Chris Madsen
1999
ISBN 0-7748-0718-0
hardcover, $75.00
ISBN 0-7748-0719-9
paper, $27.95
No Place to Run
The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare
in the First World War
Tim Cook
1999
ISBN 0-7748-0739-3
hardcover, $85.00
ISBN 0-7748-0740-7
paper, $25.95
The Halifax Explosion and
the Royal Canadian Navy
Inquiry and Intrigue
John Griffith Armstrong
Foreword by J.L. Granatstein
The Halifax Explosion of 1917 is a defining event in
the Canadian consciousness, yet it has never been
the subject of a sustained analytical history.
Astonishingly, government archives that contain firsthand
accounts of the disaster and chronicle the
response of national authorities have never been systematically
consulted – until now.
This book carefully retraces the events preceding
the disaster and the role of the military in its aftermath.
Armstrong’s compelling analysis of the legal
maneuvers, rhetoric, blunders, public controversy,
and crisis management that ensued reveals, for the
first time, the rationale behind the public inquiry findings.
His disturbing conclusion is that federal
officials knew of potential dangers in the harbour
before the explosion, took no corrective action, and
kept that information from the public. The result was
the scapegoating of a Halifax naval officer and the
lasting – and mostly undeserved – vilification of the
navy.
This comprehensive and revealing study will be of
interest to military and naval devotees, those interested
in disaster response and in political and legal
affairs, and the general public.
John Griffith Armstrong is a retired career officer who
taught history at the Royal Military College of Canada and
was part of the team at DND’s Directorate of History that
wrote Volume 3 of The Official History of the RCAF.
STUDIES IN CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORY SERIES
PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CANADIAN
WAR MUSEUM
May
256 pages, 6 x 9”
16 photos
ISSN 1499-6251
ISBN 0-7748-0890-X
hardcover, $39.95
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