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No Day Long Enough: George Lindsey, ed. |
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Description: More than one million Canadians served in uniform in the Second World War. The story of their efforts and sacrifices is one that has often been told and is known to most Canadians. Less well-known is the story of the nation's scientists and engineers, many of them just out of university at the time, who toiled endless hours in the name of the war effort. Led by a handful of visionaries, these youngsters, most with more enthusiasm than experience, developed the technologies Canada needed to arm and support our fighting services. For them, racing against the clock in a war against a ruthless and often savage enemy, there was no day long enough to allow them to complete everything they'd hoped to do by each day's end. The stories in this book, most of them first-hand accounts, give us a glimpse of their hard work and triumphs during a war that they had to win. "[These] young Canadian scientists and engineers...rose to the challenge and, in so doing, laid a solid post-war foundation for Canadian scientific research. As Canadians we should be proud of them."
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