Portraits of battle : courage, grief, and strength in Canada's Great War

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"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, exploring key issues in the process. To what extent did new technologies challenge orthodoxy on how to wage war? How did men in the trenches cope with suffering? How did gender roles evolve under fire, and to what degree did those changes survive the return home? Contributors t...

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Studies in Canadian military history

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ISBN:

9780774864916

Description:

x, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index
Issued also in electronic format

Contents:

The View from Above : A Canadian Pilot in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette / Graham Broad
"When Told to Advance, They Advanced" : War Culture and the CEF / Jonathan F. Vance
The Voiceless Dead : Francis Jenkins, Regina Trench, and Living and Dying on the Western Front / Kyle Falcon
"Going over the Ground Again" : Major Samuel Bothwell, 1st CMR, and Vimy Ridge / Peter Farrugia
Soldier or Ward? Hill 70 and the Lived Experience of Private Wilfred Lickers / Evan J. Habkirk
Talbot Papineau : The Life and Death of an Imperial Man / Geoffrey Hayes
Fallen Sisters : Gender, Military Service, and Death in Canada's First World War / Sarah Glassford
Religion and the Great War : The Canadian Experience / Gordon L. Heath
Replacing Leaders : Lieutenant Roy Duplissie and the Hundred Days Campaign / Lee Windsor
"Scars upon My Heart" : Arnold and Clarence Westcott, Brothers and Soldiers / Cynthia Comacchio
The CEF during the Hundred Days : Desertion and Punishment / Teresa Iacobelli

LCCN:

2020448107

Control Number:

3086946

Other Authors:

Farrugia, Peter, 1965- editor
Habkirk, Evan J., 1983- editor

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