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Veterans with a Vision: Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War
Serge Durflinger
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Hardback. Illuminates the challenges faced by Canada's war-blinded veterans and outlines the history of the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded, an advocacy group for all Canadian veterans and blind citizens. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Series. Num Pages: 464 pages, 54 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLW; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522. Weight in Grams: 1066.
History has told us something about our war dead but very little about our war wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada’s war-blinded veterans, whose courage and the organization they created reshaped the way Canadians and successive governments perceived war disability and, in particular, blindness.
History has told us something about our war dead but very little about our war wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada’s war-blinded veterans, whose courage and the organization they created reshaped the way Canadians and successive governments perceived war disability and, in particular, blindness.
Serge Durflinger illuminates the lives of the war blinded by detailing the veterans' process of civil re-establishment, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and social and personal coping. He describes how, in 1922, a group of veterans formed the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded ... Read more
Veterans with a Vision captures the spirit of perseverance that permeated the veterans’ community and highlights the impacts made by the war blinded as advocates for all Canadian veterans and all blind citizens.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Canadian Military History Series
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774818551
SKU
V9780774818551
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About Serge Durflinger
Serge Marc Durflinger is an associate professor of history at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec and co-editor of War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada.
Reviews for Veterans with a Vision: Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War
Veterans with a Vision is a must read for historians interested in the social impact of war on Canadian society. It is well written, thoroughly researched, soundly organized, and poignantly relevant as Canada prepares to rehabilitate a new generation of veterans in the post-Afghanistan era.
Alex Souchen, University of Western Ontario
Canadian Military History Journal
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Alex Souchen, University of Western Ontario
Canadian Military History Journal
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