12 A Sharp Tool Blunted

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Terry Copp’s Approach to History 15
7. “To Hold on High the Torch of Liberty” 33
8. Fighting a White Man’s War? 67
9. Harnessing Journalists to the War Machine 93
10. Dangerous Curves 115
11. How C.P. Stacey Became the Army’s Official Historian 139
12. “Strike Hard, Strike Sure” 159
13. Leadership and Science at War 173
14. Wartime Military Innovation and the Creation of Canada’s Defence Research Board 199
15. Overlord’s Long Right Flank 219
16. A Sharp Tool Blunted 239
17. La culture tactique canadienne 269
18. Knowing Enough Not to Interfere 317
19. No Ambush, No Defeat 335
20. Defending the Normandy Bridgehead 367
21. Operation Smash and 4 Canadian Armoured Division’s Drive to Trun 391
22. A History of Lieutenant Jones 413
23. A Biography of Major Ronald Edmond Balfour 431
24. The Personality of Memory 443
25. An Open Door to a Better Future 461
26. Contributors 479
27. Terry Copp: A Select Bibliography 485