DESMOND MORTON is professor of history at the University of Toronto and principal of Erindale College. He is the author of ministers and Generals: Politics and the Canadian militia, 1868-1904, A Peculiar Kind of Politics: Canada’s Overseas Ministry in the First World War, A Campaign (with J.L. Granatstein), and numerous other books.
GLENN WRIGHT is a specialist in military and veterans’ records with the Public Archives of Canada.
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Vendeur : CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Printed/illustrated red cloth hard covers. SIGNED by Glenn Wright, with brief inscription, on title-page. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 72089ch
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Vendeur : Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Near fine. xiv, [26], 328 p. 24 cm. 35 p. of illustrations incl. photos and tables. Orange cloth with black print. Former owner's signature on dedication page. N° de réf. du vendeur 124122
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Vendeur : Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : None -as Issued. B/W Photographs (illustrateur). First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life: 1915 -1930.' 328 pages with a large section of appendices - including one showing likelihood of wound survival - and an INDEX. As WWI vets returned, Canada was in a state of jingoistic opportunism. Muddying the waters slightly was the question: Was the American or the British model, the ideal to follow ? If every returning soldier had been able-bodied and willing to take up farming on newly opened lands, things would have breezed along. Yet, there was the question of compensation and even one of enemy aliens. LEARN about Old Originals, Alex Ross, prosthetics, widows, MHC, Canteen Fund, slackers, Vimy Pilgrimage, and neurasthenia. Cond : Boards are orange with black lettering. Front cover photo is of soldiers of the CEF waiting for demobilization in England. Volume is tight bright, square and clean with minimal wear. Minimal soiling. Has a Calgary library stamp(s) and a Sale Item stamp. None-the-less an excellent reference. Quote (p. 82) : " That evening, 2 August, the midsummer heat filled Toronto's business thoroughfares with civilians, soldiers, returned men , and convalescents from the big hospitals. Rumours that Greek waiters had attacked a disabled veteran at the White City Cafe on Yonge Street provided a spark ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. N° de réf. du vendeur 007914
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