Veterans with a Vision
Description
Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada's warblinded veterans and of the organization they founded in 1922, the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded.
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Person
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.
Content
Preface
Introduction
1 Canada's First War Blinded, 1899-1918
2 The Sir Arthur Pearson Club of War Blinded Soldiers and Sailors, 1919-29
3 The Years of Struggle, 1930-39
4 Rehabilitating the Blinded Casualties of the Second World War, 1939-50
5 Older and Wiser: Canada's War Blinded in the Aftermath of War, 1945-70
6 Twilight, 1971-2002
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index