Anxious Days and Tearful Nights: Canadian War Wives During the Great War Volume 252

by Martha Hanna

Book Overview

What was it like to be a soldier's wife in Canada during the First World War? More than 80,000 Canadian women were married to men who left home to fight in the war, and its effects on their lives were transformative and often traumatic. Yet the everyday struggles of Canadian war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. Anxious Days and Tearful Nights highlights how Canadian women's experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228003679
• ISBN13: 9780228003670
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"