Terry Copp

Terry Copp is the director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies and a professor emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books and many articles on the Canadian role in the Second World War, including travel guides to the Canadian battlefields. Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy won the 2004 Distinguished Book Award for non-US history from the American Society for Military History.

Matt Symes is a PhD candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University. He works as the publications manager for the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies and as the online editor for canadianmilitaryhistory.ca. With Eric McGeer, Matt has published three Battlefield Guides on the Italian Campaign in the Second World War.

Nick Lachance is a mature student finishing his BA in Honours History at Wilfrid Laurier University. As a research assistant at LCMSDS he manages the digitization of the 300,000 Second World War aerial reconnaissance photographs the center has in its possession. A freelance photographer and photojournalist, many of Lachance’s photos appear in this and other LCMSDS publications.

Books by Terry Copp

Montreal at War, 1914-1918

Canadian Battlefields of the Second World War

Canada's Dream Shall Be of Them

Canadian Battlefields of the First World War

Fields of Fire

1812

The Canadian Battlefields in Northern France

Canadian Battlefields 1915–1918

The Canadian Battlefields in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany

The Canadian Battlefields in Italy: Sicily and Southern Italy

Cinderella Army

A Nation at War, 1939–1945

Fields of Fire

Battle Exhaustion