Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs

College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942

by: Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs
Author: Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press

Series: Footprints Series

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 25 October 2012

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ISBN: 077353976X ISBN 13: 9780773539761

Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs by Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

A young woman experiences college life amidst constant reminders of ongoing war Top page

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Elizabeth Hillman enrolled at McGill University the week World War II began. As a freshman writing for the McGill Daily, she covered torchlight football parades and dances at the Ritz Carleton hotel while elsewhere the paper reported U-boats torpedoing convoys and war planes plummeting into the English Channel. Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs draws on her journal entries, articles from the Daily, and headlines from the Montreal Gazette to paint a vivid picture of day-to-day life on campus, alongside the civilian wartime experience in Canada. Part memoir, part history, the book touches on important feminist issues of the day, provides historical detail on both McGill University and Canada's participation in World War II, and is punctuated with candid glimpses into both the social and intellectual aspects of university life during a three-year tenure at McGill. Charmingly written with subtle ironies, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs includes photos collected from scrapbooks, albums, and the McGill archives to vividly highlight aspects of wartime life as experienced far from the battlefields. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press

City: Montreal

Pages: 288

More info: height 198 mm width 155 mm weight 499 gr thickness 23 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 971.0632092

Departments: Press & journalism;

Record updated at: 01 June, 2013 time: 13:22


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