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History World War I

Portraits of Battle

Courage, Grief, and Strength in Canada's Great War

edited by Peter Farrugia & Evan J. Habkirk

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2021
Category
World War I, Canada
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774864916
    Publish Date
    Apr 2021
    List Price
    $89.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774864947
    Publish Date
    Apr 2021
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774864923
    Publish Date
    Nov 2021
    List Price
    $34.95

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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.

About the authors

Peter Farrugia is an associate professor of History and Contemporary Studies at the Brantford campus of Wilfrid Laurier University.

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Evan J. Habkirk's profile page

Editorial Reviews

"Portraits of Battle presents the past as a complex lived experience: a story of people from a broad range of backgrounds wrestling with their own notions of service, community, and sacrifice."

University of Toronto Quarterly.

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