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Canadian historian
Sydney F. Wise
Born (1924-11-14 ) November 14, 1924
Toronto , CanadaDied March 8, 2007(2007-03-08) (aged 82)
Toronto ,
Ontario , Canada Occupation Non-fiction author journalist Alma mater
Genre Notable awards
Order of Canada
Sydney Francis Wise
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FRSC is a Canadian historian who became the official historian of the Canadian military in 1966.
Career
He joined the
Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and became a pilot. He enrolled in the
Royal Military College of Canada . After graduating he became a professor there, Queens College and
Carleton University . In 1966, he was called upon and accepted the position of the official historian of the Canadian military. In 1989 he received the
Order of Canada .
Operation Spring scandal
The destruction of the
Canada's Black Watch unit during the
Operation Spring of the Normandy invasion was seen as a scandal and there were rumours of a Canadian coverup. These rumours were made worse by Stacy and Sydney F. Wise conspired to "keep the only surviving copy of the preliminary report on Operation Spring from Major Griffin’s relatives." The two had actually saved the surviving copy of the report against orders.
Written work
Wise, Sydney F. ; Brown, Robert Craig (1967). Canada Views the United States: Nineteenth-century Political Attitudes . University of Washington Press.
ISBN
9780295785509 . - Total pages: 139
Preston, Richard Arthur;
Wise, Sydney F. (1979). Men in Arms: A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships with Western Society .
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston .
ISBN
9780030456817 . - Total pages: 450
Wise, Sydney F. (1980). Canadian Airmen and the First World War (1980 ed.). University of Toronto Press.
ISBN
9780802023797 . - Total pages: 771
Wise, Sydney F. (1980).
Canadian Airmen and the First World War: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume I (PDF) . University of Toronto Press.
ISBN
9780802023797 . Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
Preston, Richard Arthur; Roland, Alex;
Wise, Sydney F. (1991). Men in Arms: A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships with Western Society .
Holt, Rinehart and Winston .
ISBN
9780030334283 . - Total pages: 458
Wise, Sydney F. (1993). McKillop, A.B. (ed.). God's Peculiar Peoples: Essays on Political Culture in Nineteenth Century Canada .
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP .
ISBN
9780773595712 . - Total pages: 287
Wise, Sydney F. ; Greenhous, Brereton; Harris, Stephen J.; Johnston, William C.; Rawling, William C. (1994). The Crucible of War, 1939-1945, Volume 3 . University of Toronto Press.
ISBN
9780802005748 . - Total pages: 1096
Bibliography
Notes
References
Balzer, Timothy John (1989).
The Information Front: The Canadian Army, Public Relations, and War News during the Second World War (PhD). B.R.E., Northwest Baptist Theological College, 1989; B.A., Trinity Western University, 1991; M.R.E., Trinity Western University, 1993; M.A., University of Victoria, 2004.
hdl :
1828/1346 . Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
Douglas, W. A. B. (2007).
"Sydney F. Wise, 1924–2007: A Personal Recollection" . Canadian Military History . 16 (3). Canadian Armed Forces: 75–80.
ISSN
1492-465X .
OCLC
842836577 . Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
Mets, David R. (1982).
"History, war and the military professional" .
Naval War College Review . 35 . Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College.
ISSN
0028-1484 .
LCCN
75617787 .
OCLC
01779130 . Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
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