In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one-thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander docked in St John's Harbour, 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. Occupied ...
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In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one-thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander docked in St John's Harbour, 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. Occupied St John's reveals the profound impact that the war years had on the city's inhabitants, thrown into a conflict where the "home front" was also the "war front." Weaving together interviews with residents who lived through the upheaval as well as archival material, this collection reconstructs the memories of people coping with extraordinary circumstances. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Occupied St John's is a remarkable look at the effects of the Second World War on the city, opening another chapter in Newfoundland's fascinating history.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0773537503. xvi, 320 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Two fold-out maps. Profusely illustrated with quality black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Reveals the profound impact that the years of WWII had on the city's inhabitants, thrown into a conflect where the 'home front' was also the 'war front. ' Weaving together interviews with residents who lived through the upheaval as well as archival material, this collection reconstructs the memories of people coping with extraordinary circumstances."-dust jacket. "This original and highly readable study of an international city at war greatly expands what we know about the home front during the Second World War as well as Canadian-Newfoundland relations."-dust jacket. Printed upon glossy stock. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy of this fascinating work..; 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; World War 1939-1945-Newfoundland and Labrador-St. John's, St. John's [N.L. )-History, Military, St. John's (N.L. )-History, St. John's (N.L. )-Strategic Aspects-History, Civil-military Relations-Newfoundland and Labrador-St. John's-History.
