Ripples of War
Description
Military service is finite. It lasts for the duration of a war, a career, or sometimes merely months. Yet those who have served are veterans forever, and the impact ripples through not only their own lives but also those of the people they love, influencing them in profound ways.
Ripples of War brings together thoughtful essays by leading Canadian historians, as well as the personal reflections of Canadian veterans and their relatives. Contributors explore themes such as reintegration into the civilian workplace, veteran status as a tool to advance equity and social mobility, and remembrance and commemoration. Innovative research on the experiences of Indigenous, racialized, female, and 2SLGBTQ veterans gives voice – often for the first time – to those who have struggled to achieve recognition and fellowship with other veterans.
Ripples of War advances our understanding of how military service since the Second World War has shaped veterans, their families, communities, and Canada itself.
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Michael Petrou is historian of the veterans' experience at the Canadian War Museum and a former foreign correspondent. He is the author of Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War and Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World. Tim Cook, CM, FRSC, was the chief historian and director of research at the Canadian War Museum and winner of multiple awards for his books on Canadian military history. Among them are Vimy: The Battle and the Legend and The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War. Andrew Burtch is the Canadian War Museum's historian of the post-1945 period and an adjunct research professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. His book Give Me Shelter: The Failure of Canada's Cold War Civil Defence received the C.P. Stacey Award for Canadian military history.