Summerside's War Effort During WWII

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A Nation Forged in Fire; Canadians and the Second World War 1939-1945
Back the Attack! Canadian Women During the Second World War - at Home and Abroad
The Canadians at War 1939-45, Volume I
Days of Victory; Canadians Remember 1939-1945
On the Homefront; a Scrapbook of Canadian World War II Memorabilia
Six War Years 1939-1945; Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroad
The Home Front in the Second World War
Victory 1945; Canadians from War to Peace
Voices of a War Remembered; an Oral History of Canadians in World War Two

Voices of a War Remembered; an Oral History of Canadians in World War Two

by Bill McNeil - Published by Doubleday, 1991 - 376 pages

The book is a collection of stories told by individuals to interviewer Bill McNeil. They have been arranged by the following themes:

Part 1: Air Force

Part 2: Nursing

Part 3: Home Front

Part 4: Communication

Part 5: Veterans

Part 6: Infantry

Part 7: Navy

Part 8: Holidays and Leaves

Part 9: Love and War

Part 10: P.O.W.

In the Preface, the author notes the significant contribution of Canada to the war effort. "If Canada, as is often said, became a nation during World War One, she truly cemented that nationhood during the Second World War."

A ten-page Introduction presents Mr. McNeil's experience as a teenager in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia during wartime.