Bøker av Martha Hanna

The everyday struggles of war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. This book highlights how Canadian women's experiences of wartime marital separation resembled and differed from those of their European counterparts.

When President Poincare in the early days of World War I called on the French intellectual elite to contribute to the war effort with "their pens and their words," the union sacree of scholars and writers-including Henri Bergson, Pierre Duhem, Ernest Lavisse, and Emile Durkheim-united French intellect against German Kultur.

Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. Drawing upon the hundreds of letters they wrote, Martha Hanna tells their moving story and reveals a powerful and personal perspective on war.