Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec - Rilegato

Durflinger, Serge Marc

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0774812605 ISBN 13: 9780774812603

Casa editrice: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2006

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

Fighting from Home paints a comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0774812605
• ISBN 13: 9780774812603
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 279