2 Coming Home

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Timeline viii
4. Introduction 3
5. The Long 1919 12
6. Coming Home 27
7. “Playing with Fire” 43
8. New Battlegrounds 57
9. “L’honneur de notre race” 72
10. Demobilization and Colonialism 86
11. Victory at a Cost 102
12. Dealing with the Wounded 117
13. In Death’s Shadow 135
14. The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 148
15. The Group of Seven and the First World War 162
16. Domestic Demobilization 177
17. “At Peace with the Germans, but at War with the Germs” 190
18. A Timid Transformation 204
19. Politics Undone 220
20. Growing Up Autonomous 234
21. Past Futures 248
22. The Navy Reborn, an Air Force Created? The Making of Canadian Defence Policy, 1919 262
23. “Our Gallant Employees” 278
24. Conclusion 291
25. Selected Bibliography 305
26. Contributors 308
27. Index 311
28. Studies in Canadian Military History 325