Stacey Books

[Michael Dorosh]

Originally posted by Crewman
Hi,

I would like to ask you if Col. Charles P. Stacey is controversial historian in Canada? Look please at this link:
http://www.valourandhorror.com/P_Reply/Brif_vets.htm

Would not you like to comment this situation?

Best regards

C.

No, he is not controversial. He has a good autobiography called A DATE WITH HISTORY.

The Valour and the Horror was a controversial program put together by two "journalists" - not historians.

From the document you linked to:

"As modern journalists experienced in covering war and revolution, we applied our experience and training to a Canadian war five decades old."

They make it sound like that was a good thing.

The episode in the document you mention, with Stacey holding back a copy of the SPRING report, is discussed in the excellent book THE VALOUR AND THE HORROR REVISITED, Wise (one of the historians mentioned in the document you link to) edited that compilation, and has both Galafilm (the McKenna's) and other historians discussing these "controversies."