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Marching As to War : Canada's Turbulent Years by Pierre Berton (2002, Trade Pape
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “very good condition”
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Canada
- Inscribed
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- Vintage
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- ISBN
- 9780385258197
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
ISBN-10
0385258194
ISBN-13
9780385258197
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2315668
Product Key Features
Book Title
Marching As to War : Canada's Turbulent Years
Number of Pages
640 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Canada / General, Military / World War II, Military / Korean War, Military / World War I, Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-), Modern / 19th Century, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Military / Canada
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Pierre Berton entertained me royally. . . . Berton uses newspaper reports, memoirs, diaries and personal reminiscences with panache, leading us over vast historical terrain through the eyes of protagonists who were there." -- Modris Eksteins, The Globe and Mail "Berton has written the Canadian story with style and grace. . . . scintillating." -- J. L. Granatstein "A superb testament to Berton's prowess as a writer and an historian." -- Calgary Herald "Chock full of keen observation and interesting detail; a glance back at war from one of the country's most eminent popular historians." -- The London Free Press, "Pierre Berton entertained me royally. . . . Berton uses newspaper reports, memoirs, diaries and personal reminiscences with panache, leading us over vast historical terrain through the eyes of protagonists who were there." -- Modris Eksteins,The Globe and Mail "Berton has written the Canadian story with style and grace. . . . scintillating." -- J. L. Granatstein "A superb testament to Berton's prowess as a writer and an historian." --Calgary Herald "Chock full of keen observation and interesting detail; a glance back at war from one of the country's most eminent popular historians." --The London Free Press
Table Of Content
Overview THE UNCERTAIN COUNTRY Prelude THE AGE OF FAITH Book One THE WAR AGAINST THE BOERS 1. The New Imperialism 2. Soldiers of the Queen 3. Marching to Pretoria 4. Dinky Morrison's war 5. The fruits of victory Interbellum I THE LEGACY OF OPTIMISM 1. The boundary 2. The Western delirium 3. The New Woman 4. The tinpot navy 5. No truck with the Yankees Book Two THE WAR TO END ALL WARS 1. The monument 2. The crowds of August 3. The bloodletting 4. The home front 5. Canada comes of age 6. The manpower crisis 7. The Last Hundred Days 8. Beyond enduring Interbellum II THE GULLIBLE YEARS 1. Arthur Currie's Calvary 2. The royal jelly 3. War games 4. King's gambit 5. The Maple Leaf psychosis 6. The maske writers 7. Hard times 8. Peace at any price Book Three THE GLOBAL WAR 1. The phony war 2. Hong Kong 3. The displaced people 4. Don't you know there's a war on? 5. Dieppe 6. The American occupation 7. the lonely sea and the sky 8. The soft underbelly 9. The untried army 10. Not necessarily conscription 11. The drowned land 12. The offshoots of neglect Interbellum III NEW BEGINNINGS 1. Coming home 2. Mr. Brown 3. The big change Book Four KOREA: THE YO-YO WAR 1. The price of imprudence 2. An entirely new war 3. The ravaged land 4. "Be steady! Kill, and don't give way" 5. The static war Coda THE EDUCATION OF LESTER PEARSON Author's Note Infantry Units and Ranks Bibliography Index
Synopsis
"I have called this period Canada's Turbulent Years - turbulent not only because of the battles we fought on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows of Flanders, the forbidding spine of Italy, and the conical hills of Korea, but turbulent in other ways. These were Canada's formative years, when she resembled an adolescent, grappling with the problems of puberty, often at odds with her parents, craving to be treated as an adult, hungry for the acclaim of her peers, and wary of the dominating presence of a more sophisticated neighbour." - From the Introduction Canada's twentieth century can be divided roughly into two halves. All the wars and all the unnecessary battles in which Canadian youth was squandered belong to the first -- from the autumn of 1899 to the summer of 1953. From the mid-1950s on, Canada has concerned itself not with war but with peace. The first war of the century, which took Canadian soldiers to South Africa, and the last, which sent them to Korea, bracket the bookends on the shelf of history. They have a good deal in common with, these two minor conflicts, whose chronicles pale when compared to the bloodbaths of the two world wars. Canada's wartime days are long past, and for many, the scars of war have healed. Vimy has been manicured clean, its pockmarked slopes softened by a green mantle of Canadian pines. Dieppe has reverted to a resort town, its beaches long since washed free of Canadian blood. Nowadays, Canadians are proud of their role as Peacekeepers, from which they have gained a modicum of international acclaim the nation has always craved, with precious little blood wasted in the process. In this monumental work, Pierre Berton brings Canadian history to life once again, relying on a host of sources, including newspaper accounts and first-hand reports, to tell the story of these four wars through the eyes of the privates in the trenches, the generals at the front, and the politicians and families back home. By profiling the interwar years, Berton traces how one war led to the next, and how the country was changed in the process. Illustrated with maps and line drawings, Marching as to War describes how the experience of war helped to bind Canada together as a nation and chronicles the transformation of Canada's dependence upon Great Britain and its slow emergence as an independent nation caught in a love-hate relationship with the United States.
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