A date with history: Memoirs of a Canadian historian

by Charles Perry Stacey

293 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Michael Dorosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good inside look at the Canadian military history scene, and answers some questions about how the Army's official histories of the Second World War were written. Stacey goes behind the scenes of such controversies as the chronicling of Operation SPRING, for example, and talks about his postwar visit to Europe as an aide to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, whose lack of interest in the military was just as apparent after the war as it was perceived to be during it. Stacey writes with a steady hand, little emotion but a wry wit; in other words, the same way he wrote the Army's histories. No surprises in this volume, but much of value to the history buff.