Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy, Copp, Terry. Published by University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, U.S.A., 2003. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 344 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, appendices (including list of Prisoners of War and, Army Fatalities June to Aug 1944), bibliography, index. Black boards with red spine titles. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket.
Fields of Fire offers a stunning reversal of accepted military history. Terry Copp challenges and refutes the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a ‘failure’: that the allies won only through the use of ‘brute force,’ and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent. His detailed and impeccably researched analysis of what actually happened on the battlefield portrays a flexible, innovative army that made a major, and successful, contribution to the defeat of the German forces in just seventy-six days.
