Portraits of Battle
Courage, Grief, and Strength in Canada's Great War
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2021
- Category
- World War I, Canada
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774864916
- Publish Date
- Apr 2021
- List Price
- $89.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774864947
- Publish Date
- Apr 2021
- List Price
- $34.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774864923
- Publish Date
- Nov 2021
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
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.
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.
