

Winnipeg's Great War
A City Comes of Age

Description
From the local bestselling author of Winnipeg 1912 comes the riveting next chapter in the city's history. Winnipeg's Great War picks up in 1914, just as the city is regrouping after a brief economic downturn. War comes unexpectedly, thoughts of recovery are abandoned, and the city digs in for a hard-fought four years.
Using letters, diaries, and newspaper reports, Jim Blanchard brings us into the home and public offices of Winnipeg and its citizens to illustrate the profound effect the war had on every aspect of the city, from its politics and economy, to its men on the battlefield and its war-weary families fighting on the homefront. He also reveals how these crucial years set the stage for the 1919 General Strike, and how the First World War transformed Winnipeg into the city it is today.
Jim Blanchard is the author of Winnipeg 1912, which won the Margaret McWilliams History Book Award, and editor of A Thousand Miles of Prairie. He is the Head of Reference Services at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library at the University of Manitoba. He lives in Winnipeg.
About this Author
Jim Blanchard is the author of Winnipeg 1912, which won the Margaret McWilliams History Book Award, and editor of A Thousand Miles of Prairie. He is the Head of Reference Services at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library at the University of Manitoba. He lives in Winnipeg.
Reviews
"Jim Blanchard's Winnipeg's Great War examines how Winnipeg's 160,000 people faced the war from 1914 to 1918. An award-winning author of a previous book on Winnipeg and a librarian at the University of Manitoba, he knows where many of the city's skeletons are buried. Blanchard writes in an engaging style as he explores why Winnipeggers enlisted and went overseas, and how those at home coped with their absence."
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