Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton, and the Atlantic Wars

by Brian Douglas Tennyson and Roger Sarty

Book Overview

One of the great untold Canadian military stories revolves around the eastern seaport of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Guardian of the Gulf offers a vivid and long overdue account of Sydney harbour's role, and the importance of its coal deposits, in North Atlantic strategy and military operations from the Anglo-French wars in the eighteenth century to the end of the Cold War in the 1990s.

More than two centuries of activity in and around Sydney harbour...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802085458
• ISBN13: 9780802085450
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.8"