Fight or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War
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One Canadian in eight volunteered to fight between 1914 and 1918 and more than half of them were enlisted. Soldiers left their families behind to the tender mercy of a tight-fisted government and the Canadian Patriotic Fund, a national charity dominated by its wealthy donors. In time, the soldiers were remembered as the sacrificial heroes who won Canada a respected place in the world. The women who paid in loneliness and poverty were as easily forgotten...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0774811080
ISBN13:9780774811088
Release Date:October 2004
Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.46 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.6" x 9.3"
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