Occupied St John's
Author | : Steven High |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-10-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780773581104 |
ISBN-13 | : 0773581103 |
Rating | : 4/5 (103 Downloads) |
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.