The Unknown Navy: Canada's World War II Merchant Navy

Robert G. Halford

ISBN 10: 1551250403 ISBN 13: 9781551250403

Published by Vanwell Publishing Ltd., 1995

Language: English

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Title

The Unknown Navy: Canada's World War II Merchant Navy

Publisher

Vanwell Publishing Ltd.

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

1551250403

ISBN 13

9781551250403

Binding

Soft cover

Printing

4th Printing

Condition

Very Good

Weight

600 grams

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Compared to the well-published achievements of the Navy, Army and Air Force, an ocean of silence surrounds the long gone Canadian Merchant Navy. And yet, Canada operated the wartime world's fourth largest Merchant Navy, almost all of it built in Canadian shipyards.

Robert Halford provides an in-depth look at the Merchant Navy from its glorious beginnings to its unceremonious dissolution. During wartime, the merchant seamen were the heroes of the 1939-1945 war, the fourth arm of the Services. By 1948 they had undergone a quick image change, transformed from heroes to anonymous troublemakers hindering the shipping industry. The Unknown Navy endeavours to throw light on the Merchant Navy's important contribution to the Allied cause during World War II.

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