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Article: Serge Durflinger, Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec.(Book review)
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- Labour/Le Travail
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- September 22, 2007
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Serge Durflinger, Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2006)
WHEN I GREW LIP in a southern Ontario bedroom community that fed most commuters between Hamilton and Toronto, the family stories of my best buddy's parents, almost as much as much as my own, became part of my imagined sense of Canada's past. They both grew up in Verdun. Both were English Canadians. His father had served overseas as an artilleryman in Canada's Italian campaign. They married afterwards, and moved on to careers in engineering and local civic service as they played their parts in Canada's twinned booms of breadwinning and ...