The fight for history : 75 years of forgetting, remembering, and remaking Canada's Second World War

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ISBN: 9780735238336
Physical Description 512 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.

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The Fight for History : 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War

by Cook, Tim

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction	p. 1
Chapter 1	Why We Fought	p. 19
Chapter 2	Going Home	p. 43
Chapter 3	The Fallen	p. 71
Chapter 4	Absent from the Historical Record	p. 101
Chapter 5	Shifting Meanings and Fading Memories	p. 129
Chapter 6	The Memorial that Never Was	p. 161
Chapter 7	Failing to Tell Our Story	p. 181
Chapter 8	"It Doesn't Mean a Thing"	p. 201
Chapter 9	"Portraying Ourselves Continuously as Losers"	p. 217
Chapter 10	Insulted, Ignored, and Marginalized	p. 237
Chapter 11	Apology Campaigns	p. 257
Chapter 12	Contesting Veteranship	p. 285
Chapter 13	Denigration	p. 305
Chapter 14	From Controversy to Commemoration	p. 329
Chapter 15	Reclaiming History	p. 351
Chapter 16	Sites of Memory	p. 375
Chapter 17	Museum or Memorial?	p. 395
	Conclusion A War Remembered	p. 419
	Endnotes	p. 437
	Acknowledgments	p. 483
	Index	p. 485
	Credits	p. 503