Fighting Words
Subtitle: Canada's Best War Reporting
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781459706682; 9781459706668; 9781283695558; 9781459706675
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; War correspondents; Press coverage; HISTORY; War; General
Description: Fighting Words is a history of war reporting in Canada over 1,000 years, including Viking battles, the destruction of the Huron nation, and a surgeon's account of the Battle of Lake Erie. Military buffs and fans of Canadian history will be thrilled by these eyewitness accounts by journalists and non-fiction writers.
Table of contents: title: First contact; title: The conquest of Canada; title: New enemies : the Americans; title: The rebellions and invasions of 1837-1838; title: The Fenian raids; title: The Northwest resistance; title: The Second Boer War; title: The First World War; title: The Second World War; title: The Korean War; title: Peacekeeping and Peacemaking; title: The First Gulf War; title: Afghanistan.