Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945

by Terry Copp

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In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure. Cinderella Army continues the story of the operations carried out by the First Canadian Army in the last nine months of the war, and extends the argument developed in Fields of Fire that "the achievement of the Allied and especially the Canadian armies...has been greatly underrated while the effectiveness of the German army has been greatly exaggerated." Copp supports this argument with research...Read more
  • ISBN10 0802039251
  • ISBN13 9780802039255
  • Publish Date 9 September 2006
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint University of Toronto Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 392
  • Language English