Fight or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War

by Desmond Morton

One Canadian in eight volunteered to fight between 1914 and 1918 and more than half of them were enlisted. Soldiers left their families behind to the tender mercy of a tight-fisted government and the Canadian Patriotic Fund, a national charity dominated by its wealthy donors. In time, the soldiers were remembered as the sacrificial heroes who won Canada a respected place in the world. The women who paid in loneliness and poverty were as easily forgotten...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774811080
• ISBN13: 9780774811088
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.3"