Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec -by Serge Marc Durflinger / UBC Press ( University of British Columbia Press ) ( WWII / World War Two )( Studies in Canadian Military History, Volume 11 )

Durflinger, Serge Marc / UBC Press ( University of British Columbia Press )

ISBN 10: 0774812605 / ISBN 13: 9780774812603

Editore: Vancouver, BC / Toronto, ON: UBC Press ( University of British Columbia Press ), 2006, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, Vancouver, British Columbia / Toronto, Ontario, 2006

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-----------( later printing of the First Edition ) softcover, a Very Good+ example, a wee bit of rubbing at tips but overall a very tidy copy, 279 pages, b&w photos, ---"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"---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 6w x 9h Inches. Codice articolo 167344

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Titolo: Fighting from Home: The Second World War in ...

Casa editrice: Vancouver, BC / Toronto, ON: UBC Press ( University of British Columbia Press ), 2006, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, Vancouver, British Columbia / Toronto, Ontario

Data di pubblicazione: 2006

Legatura: Soft Cover

Illustratore: Photo Cover

Condizione: Very Good

autografato: Not Signed

Edizione: Later Printing.

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Fighting from Home paints a comprehensive and, at times, intimate portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war. Serge Durflinger offers an innovative interpretive approach towards understanding wartime Canadian and Quebec social and cultural dynamics.

In Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Durflinger shows that, through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, French-speaking Verdunites were partners beside their English-speaking neighbours in the prosecution of Canada’s war. Shared experiences and class similarities facilitated the development of common local identities based in pride and belonging. The need for social accommodation shaped responses based in a sense of local, not necessarily national, identity. They were all Verdunites and this is more a story of convergence than divergence.

The war, and Ottawa’s wartime policies, quickly filtered down to the community and individual levels, where Canadian men and women responded to the needs of the war and thereby made possible its successful prosecution. Fighting from Home will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Serge Durflinger is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Ottawa.