Whisky War Volume 2: Defending the North American Arctic, 1945-1957

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Since his re-election in 2024, President Donald Trump has made claims to annex both Canada and Greenland, straining relations with both Canadian and Danish governments. However, up until 2022 Denmark and Canada had their own dispute that was resolved peacefully and amicably, an example of how mature and responsible governments should handle conflict.

The Whisky War Volume 2 is the second in a series that will explain how Canada, Denmark and the United States have been cooperating in defence matters since the Second World War and how this cooperation also secured the defence of North America during the Cold War.

The Cold War that followed the Second World War made both Greenland and the Canadian Arctic essential for the protection of North America from possible Soviet air attacks by the installation of early warning radar networks and basing of interceptors on forward bases. At the same time, the US built Thule AFB in Northern Greenland for the staging of bombers and reconnaissance aircraft for operations over the USSR.

AUTHOR:
Sander Peeters was born in Dubai in 1978 to Dutch expats in the UAE. He spent most of his youth travelling around the world, where he became passionate about history and aviation. He lived in Suriname from 1987 to 1991, where at the time the local “Binnenlandse Oorlog” (War of the Interior) took place. After earning his master’s degree in chemical engineering in his native Netherlands, he followed in his parents’ footsteps and worked all over the globe in various industries, being employed in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, North America and Europe before settling in Alberta with his Canadian wife and two children.

10 b/w illustrations, 100 b/w photos, 7pp colour profiles, 15 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 10 figures, 10 tables

ISBN: 9781806722839
Author: PEETERS, SANDER
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01/02/2027
RRP: $54.99
Pages: 96
Dimension: 297mm X 210mm
Imprint: Helion & Company