Forgotten War: A Pictorial History of World War II in Alaska and Northwestern Canada

From the introduction by the "In most combat theaters of the Second World War the combatants had to fight only each other. In Alaska and northwestern Canada, however, they also did battle with the weather, the wilderness and boredom. This remote territory was probably the war's least known and least publicized combat zone. Most of those who served there had never seen anything like it before, now would they ever want to see it again....... I have tried to tell the story of the war through pictures, supplemented by enough text to provide an overall view...."