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A Township at War is the story of one community, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough, during the First World War. It takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of Vimy Ridge and the mud of Passchendaele, and shows how a tightlyknit community was consumed and transformed by the trauma of war. In 1914, East Flamborough was like a thousand other rural townships in Canada, broadly representative in its wartime experience. A Township at War draws from rich narrative sources to reveal what rural people were like a century ago – how they saw the world, what they valued, and how they lived their lives. We see them coming to terms with global events that took their loved ones to distant battlefields, and dealing with the prosaic challenges of everyday life. Fall fairs, recruiting meetings, church services, school concerts – all are re-imagined to understand how rural Canadians coped with war, modernism, and a world that was changing more quickly than they were. This is a story of resilience and idealism, of violence and small-mindedness, of a world that has long disappeared and one that remains with us to this day. Hardcover, Label: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Product group: Book, Published: 2018-10-24, Studio: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

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20th century,americas,biographies,canada,canadian,historical,history,leaders and notable people,military, Unlikely Soldiers, Published to rave reviews, this is the never-before-told story of two brilliant young Canadians who became unlikely soldiers. Ken Macalister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Frank Pickersgill was a doctoral student in classics at l’Université de Paris. Together, they volunteered for the British SOE and soon found themselves being trained to kill. On June 15, 1943, with false identities, they parachuted into the Rhone Valley, but there were double agents within the Resistance; too soon Macalister and Pickersgill were captured, tortured and put on a train for Germany.Vance has written a brilliant, heartbreaking book about heroism, betrayal and sacrifice, capturing the promise of a generation of young men who went to their deaths for a greater cause.

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Jonathan F. Vance, Books, History, Americas, Objects of Concern: Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century, Hockey magnate Conn Smythe, Trudeau cabinet minister GillesLamontagne, and the composer and former conductor of the TorontoSymphony Orchestra, Sir Ernest MacMillan, share something other thantheir fame: they all have the dubious distinction of having beencaptured by the enemy during Canada's wars of the twentiethcentury. Like some 15,000 other Canadians, Smythe, Lamontagne, andMacMillan experienced the bewilderment that accompanied the moment ofcapture, the humiliation of being completely in the captor's power,and the sense of stagnating in a backwater while the rest of the worldmoved forward.From prison camps in Eire, where POWs were allowed to keep pets andto be members of the local tennis clubs, to camps in Japan, whereprisoners were often severely beaten, systematically starved, andoverworked, Canadian prisoners of war throughout the twentieth centuryhave faced a variety of conditions and experiences. But they did notfight their war alone and isolated. On the home front, many otherpeople attempted to help them. Against the backdrop of the POWexperience, Jonathan Vance provides the first comprehensive account ofhow the Canadian government and non-governmental organizations such asthe Red Cross have dealt with the problems of prisoners of war.Beginning in the nineteenth century, Vance traces the growth ofCanadian interest in the plight of POWs. He goes on to examine themeasures taken to assist Canadian POWs during the two world wars andthe Korean war. The book focuses in particular on the campaigns to shiprelief supplies to prison camps and on attempts to secure theprisoners' release.POWs have sometimes been seen as forgotten casualties whoseprivations were misunderstood during war and whose needs were neglectedafterwards. This perception developed out of a tradition in POW memoirswhich paid little attention to the efforts of politicians, civilservants, and individuals who devoted considerable time and energy totheir cause. Vance argues that this impression is wrong and that, infact, every effort was made to ameliorate conditions for men and womenin captivity. In his book, he outlines the difficulties and confusionthat arose from jurisdictional squabbling and lack of clearcommunication. Ironically, Vance concludes, obstacles were more oftencreated by an overabundance of enthusiasm than by a lack of interest inthe prisoners' fate. Canada's wartime bureaucracy, oftenpraised by historians, is revealed as needlessly complex and, in manyways, hopelessly inefficient.In Objects of Concern, Jonathan Vance examines Canada'srole in the formation of an important aspect of international law,traces the growth and activities of a number of national and localphilanthropic agencies, and recounts the efforts of ex-prisoners tosecure compensation for the long-term effects of captivity. In doingso, he reminds Canadians of an aspect of war that has often beenoverlooked in conventional military history.

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A-Township-at-War~~Jonathan-F-Vance, A Township at War, Hardcover.

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Daytime-Attraction~~Jonathan-Vance, Daytime Attraction, NOOK Book (eBook).