Occupied St John's

Occupied St John's
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780773581104
ISBN-13 : 0773581103
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Download or read book Occupied St John's written by Steven High and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander docked in St John's harbor, carrying a thousand American soldiers sent to join the thousands of Canadian troops protecting Newfoundland against attack by Germany. France had fallen, Great Britain was fighting for its survival, and Newfoundland - then a dominion of Britain - was North America's first line of defence. Although the German invasion never came, St John's found itself occupied by both Allied Canadian and American forces.


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