{"product_id":"fighting-from-home-9780774812603","title":"Fighting from Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFighting 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. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fighting from Home is an essential contribution to Canadian military and social history. It very successfully reveals the heartfelt response of one community to a time of great challenge. Serge Durfinger's innovative work transforms this story of ordinary people in wartime into a nuanced analysis that will strike a chord with a broad audience.\" - Roch Legault, author of La Premiere Guerre Mondiale et le Canada: Contributions sociomilitaires quebecoises\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Studying War at the Local Level\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Forging a Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Once More into the Breach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 City Hall Goes to War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The People’s Response\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Institutions and Industry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Family and Social Dislocation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Political War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Peace and Reconstruction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404913615191,"sku":"9780774812603","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774812603.jpg?v=1730488033","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fighting-from-home-9780774812603","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}