New Serial Titles

New Serial Titles
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Total Pages: 1344
Release: 1998
Genre: Periodicals
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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Veterans with a Vision

Veterans with a Vision
Author: Serge Marc Durflinger
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2010-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774859253

History has told us something about our war dead but very little about our war wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada’s war-blinded veterans, whose courage and the organization they created reshaped the way Canadians and successive governments perceived war disability and, in particular, blindness. Serge Durflinger illuminates the lives of the war blinded by detailing the veterans' process of civil re-establishment, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and social and personal coping. He describes how, in 1922, a group of veterans formed the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded (SAPA), closely linked to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). This organization effectively advocated for government pension entitlements, job retraining, and other social programs that allowed veterans to regain a strong measure of independence. Veterans with a Vision captures the spirit of perseverance that permeated the veterans’ community and highlights the impacts made by the war blinded as advocates for all Canadian veterans and all blind citizens.

American-British-Canadian Intelligence Relations, 1939-2000

American-British-Canadian Intelligence Relations, 1939-2000
Author: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135272026

This work considers, for the first time, the intelligence relationship between three important North Atlantic powers in the Twenty-first century, from WWII to post-Cold War. As demonstrated in the case studies in this volume, World War II cemented loose and often informal inter-allied agreements on security intelligence that had preceded it, and created new and important areas of close and formal co-operation in such areas as codebreaking and foreign intelligence.

Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1954-2009

Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1954-2009
Author: James G. Fergusson
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774817526

Since the mid-1950s, successive Canadian governments have responded to US ballistic missile defence initiatives with fear and uncertainty. Officials have endlessly debated the implications – at home and abroad – of participation. Drawing on previously classified government documents and interviews with senior officials, James Fergusson offers the first full account of Canada’s unsure response to US initiatives. He reveals that factors such as weak leadership and a tendency to place uncertain and ill-defined notions of international peace and security before national defence have resulted in indecision. In the end, policy-makers have failed to transform the ballistic missile defence issue into an opportunity to define Canada’s strategic interests at home and on the world stage.