The fight for history : 75 years of forgetting, remembering, and remaking Canada's Second World War
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- ISBN: 9780735238336 (hardcover)
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512 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: [Toronto] : Allen Lane, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Why we fought -- Going home -- The fallen -- Absent from the historical record -- Shifting meanings and fading memories -- The memorial that never was -- Failing to tell our story -- "It doesn't mean a thing" -- "Portraying ourselves continuously as losers" -- Insulted, ignored, and marginalized -- Apology campaigns -- Contesting veteranship -- Denigration -- From controversy to commemoration -- Reclaiming history -- Sites of memory -- Museum or memorial? -- A war remembered. |
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada Collective memory -- Canada Memorialization -- Canada |
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