The Forgotten Ally: Canada
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Tim Cook joined me on the pod to discuss how Canadian contributions are frequently overlooked or diminished in discussions of the War. Most major war histories are written by British or American authors, who give little credit to the Canadians as a separate fighting force.
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| 0:22.7 | Hi everybody, welcome down to those history here. |
| 0:29.2 | We got Tim Cook on the podcast today. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm very pleased to say he's one of Canada's foremost historians of the first and second |
| 0:34.8 | world war. |
| 0:35.8 | He's written a dozen books, including a three volume work on Canada in the first world |
| 0:40.4 | war. |
| 0:41.4 | He's now smashed out the last of his multi volume history of Canada in the second world |
| 0:45.6 | war. |
| 0:46.6 | He and I had a chat about why Canada is overlooked as an ally. |
| 0:50.8 | It's contribution in the war. |
| 0:52.4 | It's massive navy by the end of the war. |
| 0:54.0 | It's army that liberated great chunks of Western Europe, 1944 to 1945. |
| 0:59.4 | It tends to be forgotten. |
| 1:00.6 | And actually why it's overlooked in Canada itself. |
| 1:03.6 | As a Canadian citizen, there's a great conversation to have. |
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| 1:10.8 | as we move into a very busy week next week with the 400th anniversary of Mayflower and |
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