Fighting from Home
Author | : Serge Durflinger |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780774841047 |
ISBN-13 | : 0774841044 |
Rating | : 4/5 (044 Downloads) |
Download or read book Fighting from Home written by Serge Durflinger and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, they proved themselves partners in the prosecution of Canada's war. Shared experiences and class similarities shaped responses based first and foremost in a sense of local identity. Fighting from Home paints a comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war. Durflinger offers an innovative interpretive approach to wartime Canadian and Quebec social and cultural dynamics in this history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.