Stephen Kimber

Sailors, Slackers, and Blind Pigs (eBook, ePUB)

Halifax at War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The untold story of how war transformed the city of Halifax. Stephen Kimber recreates life in Halifax during the Second World War, a city transformed by the influx of military and civilian personnel serving the war effort. Poorly governed and corrupt, the city erupted at the end of the war in Europe in the infamous V-E Day riots of May 1945. Halifax was the only Canadian city directly caught up in the drama, danger, death, and disaster of our last "good” war. Through the eyes and experiences of the people who lived it -- sailors, slackers (civilians), prohibitionists, spies, profiteers, and just plain local folk -- Stephen Kimber brings this extraordinary period of history to life. From an initial outpouring of imperial patriotism and local paternalism to the final Bacchanalian orgy of booze, looting, dancing in the streets, public fornication and general mayhem, this is the true, untold story of how a city changed a war, and a war changed a city. Drawing on primary sources ranging from local government and military archives to personal diaries, Kimber recreates life in Halifax during the Second World War so convincingly that readers will feel that they have journeyed back in time to meet some of the most colourful characters ever encountered in a history book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Doubleday Canada
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780385672818
• Artikelnr.: 38204015

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of the university's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels (The Sweetness in the Lime and Reparations) and eleven books of non-fiction, including Bitcoin Widow with Jennifer Robertson; Sailors, Slackers, and Blind Pigs; and Flight 111. Sailors, Slackers, and Blind Pigs won the Dartmouth Book Award, the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Award for Nonfiction, and a Torgi Award for its portrayal of Halifax dujring World War II. His writing has appeared in almost all Canadian publications. He lives in Halifax.