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Author: Graham Broad
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
Weight: 0.560kg
ISBN: 9780774823630
ISBN 10: 0774823631
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 October 2013
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A Small Price To Pay is wry, ironic and wonderfully researched. It is also a dramatic resetting of the record. Far from the media depiction of 1940s Canada as a bleak and downcast place, Broad makes a persuasive case that most people never had it so good...for young Canadians and even for those who lived it, the war years are immortalized as a black-and-white period of communal misery and sacrifice. A Small Price To Pay reruns the memory reel in brilliant colour punctuated with an astonishing fact: in no year of the war did Canada spend more on the military than it did on shopping. -- Holly Doan Blacklock's Reporter: Minding Ottawa's Business
I encourage neophytes and specialists alike interested in the Canadian home front to read this book. It should not be ignored for anyone interested in this topic. -- Daniel German, Library and Archives Canada * Canadian Military History * A Small Price To Pay is wry, ironic and wonderfully researched. It is also a dramatic resetting of the record. Far from the media depiction of 1940s Canada as a bleak and downcast place, Broad makes a persuasive case that most people never had it so good...for young Canadians and even for those who lived it, the war years are immortalized as a black-and-white period of communal misery and sacrifice. A Small Price To Pay reruns the memory reel in brilliant colour punctuated with an astonishing fact: in no year of the war did Canada spend more on the military than it did on shopping. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter: Minding Ottawa's Business *
A Small Price To Pay is wry, ironic and wonderfully researched. It is also a dramatic resetting of the record. Far from the media depiction of 1940s Canada as a bleak and downcast place, Broad makes a persuasive case that most people never had it so good...for young Canadians and even for those who lived it, the war years are immortalized as a black-and-white period of communal misery and sacrifice. A Small Price To Pay reruns the memory reel in brilliant colour punctuated with an astonishing fact: in no year of the war did Canada spend more on the military than it did on shopping. -- Holly Doan Blacklock's Reporter: Minding Ottawa's Business I encourage neophytes and specialists alike interested in the Canadian home front to read this book. It should not be ignored for anyone interested in this topic. -- Daniel German, Library and Archives Canada Canadian Military History
Author Information
Graham Broad is a member of the Department of History at King’s University College, Western University.
