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THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION AND THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY
INQUIRY AND INTRIGUE |
| By: |
John Griffith Armstrong |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£87.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
077480890X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774808903 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2002 |
| Series: |
Studies in Canadian Military History |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
This work provides a sustained analytical history of the Halifax Explosion, a defining event in the Canadian consciousness. It retraces the events preceding the disaster and the role of the military in its aftermath, analyzing the legal maneuvers, rhetoric, blunders and public controversy. |
| Synopsis: |
The Halifax Explosion of 1917 is a defining event in the Canadianconsciousness, yet it has never been the subject of a sustainedanalytical history. Astonishingly, until now no one has consulted thelarge federal government archives that contain first-hand accounts ofthe disaster and the response of national authorities.Canada's recently established navy was at the epicentre of thecrisis. Armstrong reveals the navy's compelling, and little-known,story by carefully retracing the events preceding the disaster and therole of the military in its aftermath. He catches the pulse of disasterresponse in official Ottawa and provides a compelling analysis of thelegal manoeuvres, rhetoric, blunders, public controversy, and crisismanagement that ensued. His disturbing conclusion is that federalofficials knew of potential dangers in the harbour before theexplosion, took no corrective action, and kept the information from thepublic. As a result, a Halifax naval officer was made a scapegoat andthe navy received lasting, and mostly undeserved, vilification.This is a provocative read not only for military and naval devoteesbut for anyone who wants to understand one of the events that shapedCanada in the twentieth century. |
| Illustrations: |
16 b&w photographs, 3 maps |
| Publication: |
Canada |
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University of British Columbia Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of John Lyman Book Award, North American Society for Oceanic History
Short-listed for Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Atlantic
Short-listed for Dartmouth Non-Fiction Book Award, Atlantic Writing Awards
Short-listed for Keith Matthews Prize, Canadian Nautical Research Society |
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