Portraits of Battle : Courage, Grief, and Strength in Canada's Great War Paperback / softback
Edited by Peter Farrugia, Evan J. Habkirk
Part of the Studies in Canadian Military History series
Paperback / softback
Description
All Canadians are taught about Vimy Ridge. But that celebrated victory was just one battle among many to shape the country’s experience of the First World War. Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section of Canadians who served in the war.
Contributors to this thoughtful collection consider the range of Canadians touched by war – soldiers and their loved ones, deserters, nurses, Indigenous people, those injured in body or mind – raising fundamental questions about the nature of conflict and memory. These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on war memorials fill in what is often missing from accounts of the Great War.
In the process, they provide a more nuanced perspective on the complex legacy of that war in Canadian history.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages, 17 b&w photographs, 10 maps, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:24/06/2021
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- ISBN:9780774864923
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages, 17 b&w photographs, 10 maps, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:24/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780774864923
