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Veterans with a Vision

Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War

By: Serge Marc Durflinger

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Veterans with a Vision

Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War

By: Serge Marc Durflinger

History has told us something about our war dead but very little about our war wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada’s war-blinded veterans, whose courage and the organization they created reshaped the way Canadians and successive governments perceived war disability and, in particular, blindness. Serge Durflinger illuminates the lives of the war blinded by detailing the veterans' process of civil re-establishment, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and social and personal coping. He describes how, in 1922, a group of veterans formed the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded (SAPA), closely linked to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). This organization effectively advocated for government pension entitlements, job retraining, and other social programs that allowed veterans to regain a strong measure of independence. Veterans with a Vision captures the spirit of perseverance that permeated the veterans’ community and highlights the impacts made by the war blinded as advocates for all Canadian veterans and all blind citizens.

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0774859253

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9780774859257

Fighting from Home

The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec

By: Serge Durflinger

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Fighting from Home

The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec

By: Serge Durflinger

In 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. Fighting 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 in this history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.

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0774841044

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9780774841047

Veterans with a Vision

Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War

By: Serge Marc Durflinger

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Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War

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War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada

By: Serge Marc Durflinger,Jeff Keshen

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War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada

By: Serge Marc Durflinger,Jeff Keshen

War and Canadian Society seeks to sensitize readers to selected topics in Canadian military and social-military history and to familiarize them with some important and often emotive writing about the effects of war on Canada in the post-Confederation era. The readings, drawn from the recent and not-so-recent historiography, are grouped around themes, or modules, which convey some measure of war's often transformative effect on Canada and Canadians.

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0176408118

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9780176408114

Capturing Hill 70

Canada’s Forgotten Battle of the First World War

By: Douglas E. Delaney,Serge Marc Durflinger

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Capturing Hill 70

Canada’s Forgotten Battle of the First World War

By: Douglas E. Delaney,Serge Marc Durflinger

In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, vital terrain just north of the French town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and in three harrowing days defeated twenty-one German counterattacks. This spectacularly successful but shockingly costly battle was as innovative as Vimy, yet few Canadians have heard of it or of subsequent attempts to capture Lens, which resulted in nearly 3,300 more casualties. Capturing Hill 70 marks the centenary of this triumph by dissecting different facets of the battle, from planning and conducting operations to long-term repercussions and commemoration. It reinstates Hill 70 to its rightful place among the pantheon of battles that forged the reputation of the famed Canadian Corps during the First World War.

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0774833610

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Veterans with a Vision

Veterans with a Vision

Fighting from Home

Fighting from Home

Veterans with a Vision

Veterans with a Vision

War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada

War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada

Capturing Hill 70

Capturing Hill 70

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