Occupied St John's: A Social History of a City at War, 1939-1945

by Steven High

Book Overview

In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one-thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander docked in St John's Harbour, carrying a thousand American soldiers sent to join the thousands of Canadian troops protecting Newfoundland against attack by Germany. France had fallen, Great Britain was fighting for its survival, and Newfoundland ? then a dominion of Britain ? was North America's first line of defence. Although the German invasion never came, St John's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773548173
• ISBN13: 9780773548176
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 9.9"