The Whisky War Volume 1

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 1 is the first 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 laid the foundation of a relationship that has provided mutual defense to all countries involved ever since.

This book will explain how Greenland was important to both sides during the Second World War, due to its strategic location and the presence of an important mineral essential to produce aircraft. German efforts to establish weather stations on the island resulted in small scale battles in some of the most remote parts of the world. 

In addition, the Second World War also saw the founding of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, which laid the framework for cooperation between Canadian and US armed forces and founded several large defense projects, such as the set up of airfields in Nunavut for the ferrying of aircraft to Europe to supported Lend-Lease.

The Second World War also saw the involvement of both the US and Canada in the defence of Newfoundland – which was a separate country at the time. This resulted in the basing of military units and the construction of new installations, such as Goose Bay and Argentia. These played an important part in countering the U-boat threat in the North Atlantic and were a stopover for men and aircraft sent overseas during the war.