Wartime: The First World War in a Canadian Town Patches The negotiating of ideas about

The negotiating of ideas about gender by women and men across vast reaches of the globe characterizes this modern

When an effort to overthrow the British rulers of Iraq failed

Recounting bloody battles and endless exhaustion

morality and conscience with a lightness of touch coupled with an atmospheric picture of life in a WWI era rural community

which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany

Wartime: The First World War in a Canadian Town Patches The negotiating of ideas aboutDescription by Edward Butts Hardcover The First World War was the cause of dramatic changes in every Canadian community. What it meant to daily life becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario. The first months were the easiest, as young men rushed to enlist. Once news of casualties and deaths started arriving, the atmosphere changed drastically. Mothers dreaded the arrival of the telegraph boy. Newspapers published fulsome