Steven High

Occupied St John's (eBook, PDF)

A Social History of a City at War, 1939-1945

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander docked in St John's harbor, 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 found itself occupied by both Allied Canadian and American forces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Seitenzahl: 337
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780773581104
• Artikelnr.: 37844866

Autorenporträt

Steven High is Canada Research Chair in Public History and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University.