Ultimatum 1973 >>where an LBJ-like US president forcibly annexes Canada when the latter >>gets nationalistic about its oil) called "Ultimatum" by Richard Rohmer, also dealing with American annexationism towards Canada. Exxoneration 1974 >> >I can't speak for the rest, but I do recall Canada having plans for >> >repelling a >> >US invasion as well as plans for invading the US. >> > >> >I don't know whether they have been updated since the 30s. >> > >> >Of course we could just re-read Exxoneration, a book by Richard Rohmer >> >(ObRAM: former Spitfire pilot). > One take on this scenario is in Richard Rohmer's novels "Exxoneration", > "Exodus, UK", and "Separation" (McClelland and Stewart, c1974, 1975, > 1976). The basic plot of Exxoneration is that OPEC yanks its prices > skyward, and some nice petrochemicals are being exported from Canada. When > those aren't given away to the States, the US President declares that > Canada is now part of the U.S. and has anybody got a problem with that? > (Paraphrased, of course. :) ) Exodus: U.K. 1975 Exodus 1975 Separation (sequel to Exodus: U.K.) 1976 "The Air Reserve : its present state and its plans for the future." Canadian Defence Quarterly. 6(4):30-34, Spring 1977 E. P. Taylor : the biography of Edward Plunket Taylor McClelland and Steward, Ltd., Toronto 1978 "Richard Rohmer and His Referendum - A View from Quebec" 1979 Balls! 1979 Energie zero (translation of Balls!) 1980 Periscope Red 1980 Triad (sequel to Periscope Red) 1981 Retaliation 1982 Rommel & Patton 1986 'Rommel and Patton' by Richard Rohmer is a good read-a fictional account of the two commanders during the Battle of Normandy Starmageddon 1986 Red Arctic 1989 Patton's gap : an account of the Battle of Normandy 1944 1991 John A.'s crusade : a novel 1995 Death by deficit : a 2001 novel 1995 "mid-Canada corridor concept drawn up by Richard Rohmer and Acres Research" Major-General Richard Rohmer Rohmer, Richard 1924- in 1965, Government Legal Counsel for Ontario Premier daughter: Anne Rohmer Program Host at CityTV as of 3/96 to 6/96 My mistake. Rohmer was a fighter reconnaissance fighter who apparently spotted Rommel's southbound staff car at 5:12 p.m. DBST (or 4:12 German time). He called Group Control Centre, reported the location and turned his formation westward. He did not stay to find out if any fighter responded to his information. According to Operations Record Book for 17 July 1944, this is the only report of a staff car sighting made by 430 Squadron pilots during it's operations on the Normandy beachead. He spotted the huge staff car filled with people of rank because of uniform colour and markings on a narrow road leading off the St. Pierre-sur-Dives-Liavarot highway. This is where Rommel would have been having left the headquarters of Dietrich at St. Pierre-sur-Dives at 5:00 p.m. DBST (4:00 German time). Rommel's Horsch was strafed 19 kilometres from Dietrich's headquarters. Was it Squadron Leader Le Roux of 602 Squadron RAF who did the strafing? His Personal Combat Report makes no such claim. What he did claim was the destruction of a ME109 aircraft 50 km away soutwest of Flers. According to Rohmer Le Roux was not airborne when Rommel's car was strafed at 5:15 DBST (4:15 German time). The Operations Record Book for 602 RAF Squadron shows Le Roux was airborne from 3:40 DBST to 4:45 DBST (3:45 German time!). He thinks the overlap of DBST (Double British Standard Time) time with German time caused the error, I don't know if Rohmer is right or wrong and I don't like the idea of questioning credit for such a significant event. Maybe someone out there has more information. P.S. Thanks for your query. Rohmer' book is titled 'Rommel and Patton'. The Trudeau Papers If Wing wants to read some _real_ interesting books, he should look up one called "The Trudeau Papers" - about how a botched US/USSR nuclear strike winds up destroying Canadian society and the US moves in to occupy Canada as a "police action" (in the 1970s) > I just happen to have a copy of said novel handy... > >Title: The Trudeau Papers >Authour: Ian Adams >Copyright: 1971 > > A rather depressing little piece. The USA and USSR lob nukes at each >other, which fall in Canada. Things go worse from there. : > > Actually Adams "The Trudeau Papers" is far more interesting. Canada : > > : > > winds up in the middle of a nuclear misfire, with radioactive refugees : > > : > > being gunned down at the Manitoba-North Dakota border and Ontario : > > placed : > > under occupation by the US "at the invitation of the Canadian : > > government"...... : > An excellent book, though we must remember when it was written (the : > 70's), the whole idea of the book was to create a "Vietnam-North" : > scenario.