Portraits of Battle

Courage, Grief, and Strength in Canada's Great War

Edited by Peter Farrugia & Evan J. Habkirk
Categories: Military History, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Canadian Military History
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774864916, 328 pages, April 2021
Paperback : 9780774864923, 328 pages, November 2021
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774864930, 328 pages, April 2021
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774864947, 328 pages, April 2021
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Table of contents

Introduction / Peter Farrugia

1 The View from Above: A Canadian Pilot in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette / Graham Broad

2 “When Told to Advance, They Advanced”: War Culture and the CEF / Jonathan F. Vance

3 The Voiceless Dead: Francis Jenkins, Regina Trench, and Living and Dying on the Western Front / Kyle Falcon

4 “Going over the Ground Again”: Major Samuel Bothwell, 1st CMR, and Vimy Ridge / Peter Farrugia

5 Soldier or Ward? Hill 70 and the Lived Experience of Private Wilfred Lickers / Evan J. Habkirk

6 Talbot Papineau: The Life and Death of an Imperial Man / Geoffrey Hayes

7 Fallen Sisters: Gender, Military Service, and Death in Canada’s First World War / Sarah Glassford

8 Religion and the Great War: The Canadian Experience / Gordon L. Heath

9 Replacing Leaders: Lieutenant Roy Duplissie and the Hundred Days Campaign from the D-Q to the Marcoing Line / Lee Windsor

10 “Scars upon My Heart”: Arnold and Clarence Westcott, Brothers and Soldiers / Cynthia Comacchio

11 Desertion and Punishment in the CEF during the 100 Days / Teresa Iacobelli

Conclusion / Peter Farrugia

Select Bibliography; Index

Description

Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section of Canadians who served in the First World War. All Canadians are taught about Vimy Ridge, but that celebrated victory was just one battle among many to shape the country’s experience of the war. These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on war memorials provide a fresh and nuanced perspective on the complex legacy of the Great War in Canadian history.