Our Glory and Our Grief offers a fresh look at the First World War's effect on Canada's second largest city. What happened in Toronto? What did citizens know about the front? How were the enormous sacrifices of the war rationalized?
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"The citizens of Toronto were thousands of miles behind the front lines, shielded by the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. They were never shelled, they were not gassed, and they were never forced to rise from a trench and trust that fate would keep them safe as they walked across …
Our Glory and Our Grief offers a fresh look at the First World War's effect on Canada's second largest city. What happened in Toronto? What did citizens know about the front? How were the enormous sacrifices of the war rationalized?
A young peasant couple from southwest France wed just prior to to war's eruption in 1914 is forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Civilians and combatants alike maintained bonds of emotional commitment and suffered the inevitable miseries of extended absence…
A young peasant couple from southwest France wed just prior to to war's eruption in 1914 is forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Civilians and combatants alike maintained bonds of emotional commitment and suffered the inevitable miseries of extended absence…
Beginning with the armistice in 1918, Canadians constructed a version of the First World War that stressed traditional values, continuity, and the positive results of the war experience. In Death So Noble, Jonathan Vance examines this mythical reconstruction, arguing that it sou…
Beginning with the armistice in 1918, Canadians constructed a version of the First World War that stressed traditional values, continuity, and the positive results of the war experience. In Death So Noble, Jonathan Vance examines this mythical reconstruction, arguing that it sou…
"A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London…
This text provides a comprehensive survey of Germany's experience during the First World War and paints a rich portrait of life on the home front. The new edition incorporates more material on action outside Europe, military occupation, prisoners of war, and the memory of war.
Shortly after the First World War, General Sir George Macdonogh, wartime British Director of Military Intelligence, revealed that Lord Allenby's victory in Palestine had been certain because every one of his opponents' cards was known: Allenby was consequently able to play his o…
Shortly after the First World War, General Sir George Macdonogh, wartime British Director of Military Intelligence, revealed that Lord Allenby's victory in Palestine had been certain because every one of his opponents' cards was known: Allenby was consequently able to play his o…
Shortly after the First World War, General Sir George Macdonogh, wartime British Director of Military Intelligence, revealed that Lord Allenby's victory in Palestine had been certain because every one of his opponents' cards was known: Allenby was consequently able to play his o…
Representing cutting-edge scholarship in First World War studies, this anthology demonstrates the possibility of finding common ground in how cultural, social, and military historians study the war. Essays focus on decisions of commanders, inter-allied negotiations, trench cultu…