For All We Have and Are: Regina and the Experience of the Great War - Pitsula, James M.

Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to inside corners; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; WWI profoundly affected every community in Canada. In Regina, the politics of national identity, the rural myth, and the social gospel all lent a distinctive flavour to the city's experience of the Great War. For many Reginian, the fight against German militarism merged with the struggle against social evils and the "Big Interests." adding new momentum in the forces of social reform, including the fights for prohibition and women's suffrage. Pitsula traces these social movements against the background of the lives of Regina men who fought overseas in battles such as Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge. Skillfully combining vivid detail with the larger social context, this book provides a nuanced picture of how one Canadian community rebuilt both its realities and myths in response to the cataclysm of the "war to end all wars." - from the cover
Near Fine
Soft cover
University of Manitoba Press
2008
Winnipeg, MB