Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War, 1939-1945, Revised Edition - Softcover

Gossage, Carolyn; Bondar, Roberta; Carolyn, Gossage

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550023683 ISBN 13: 9781550023688

Verlag: Dundurn Group, 2001

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"Through the voices of the women represented in this book, these years emerge as a pivotal period for Canadian women, full of contradictions, challenges, and auguries of the present." -- Andrea Levan * Canadian Book Review Annual *

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Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the recruiting posters urged. By the war's end almost 50,000 of them were in the forces. Carolyn Gossage has compiled a fascinating collage of anecdotal and documentary material. The colourful story of Canada's "forgotten women" - those who volunteered for service during World War II in the RCAF Women's division, the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) and the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (Wrens) - entertains and enlightens. Carolyn Gossage has taught history and English in Canada and abroad for over twenty years. She is also the author of a number of books including: A Question of Privilege, Canada's Independent Schools (1977).

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• Verlag: Dundurn Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1550023683
• ISBN 13: 9781550023688
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298