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Marching as to war ; Canada's turbulent years 1899 - 1953 / Pierre Berton

By:

Berton, Pierre, (, 1920-2004)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Canada : Anchor Canada , c2002Description: 362 p. : illus. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780385258197

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DDC classification:

971.06 BER

Summary: 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. Pierre Berton brings Canadian history to life once again, relying on a host of sources, including newspaper accounts and first-hand reports 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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	971.06 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		048434

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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. Pierre Berton brings Canadian history to life once again, relying on a host of sources, including newspaper accounts and first-hand reports 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.

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