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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.

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      Publisher: MN - University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/24/2021
      ISBN13: 9780774864916, 978-0774864916
      ISBN10: 0774864915

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

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