Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54 Hardcover - 2011
by Randall Wakelam
From the jacket flap
The cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow in 1959 holds such a grip on
the Canadian imagination that earlier developments in defence
procurement remain obscure. Randall Wakelam corrects this
oversight - and offers fresh insight on the AVRO saga and
contemporary procurement issues - by revealing how cabinet
ministers, chiefs of staff, and air marshals negotiated competing
pressures to arm the air force, please allies, and save money during a
decade when Canada's air force was growing by leaps and bounds.
The result was the CF-100 Canuck and the F-86 Sabre, Canada's
front-line defensive aircraft in the coldest years of the Cold War.
Details
- Title Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54
- Author Randall Wakelam
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of British Columbia Press
- Date 2011-11
- ISBN 9780774821483 / 0774821485
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Canadiana
- Dewey Decimal Code 358.416