Fighting from Home
The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec
- Publisher
- Canadian War Museum, UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2006
- Category
- Canada, World War I, Quebec (QC), Post-Confederation (1867-)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774841047
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774812603
- Publish Date
- May 2006
- List Price
- $37.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774812610
- Publish Date
- Nov 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
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.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Serge Durflinger is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Ottawa.
