- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: UBC Press; Large type edition edition (Mar 22 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0774818557
- ISBN-13: 978-0774818551
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.6 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #672,481 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a highly original book. Durflinger’s impressive narrative adds a new dimension to our understanding of the social history of Canada’s role in the two world wars of the twentieth century.
– Peter Neary, co-editor of The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada
Among many other things, Veterans with a Vision is the history of the most successful and influential of Canada’s disabled veterans, the war-blinded. Durflinger makes no secret of his admiration for Edwin Baker, the blinded engineer whose vision of the most appropriate role and treatment of the war-blinded, coupled with his acute sense of real-politik, make him a model for anyone seeking to guide an NGO to success. This timely book will interest anyone involved in disability as a social phenomenon and should inspire comparable volumes for other categories of disability, whether war-related or a consequence of civil life.
– Desmond Morton, author of Fight or Pay: Soldiers’ Families in the Great War
Based on fascinating personal stories, thorough archival research, and rigorous scholarship, Veterans with a Vision illuminates the lives of Canadian veterans from the world wars and their integration back into society as contributing members. Durflinger tracks the veterans’ decades-long battles, as they mobilized to establish organizations to meet their unique ends and pressure the government for more generous rights and pensions. Well-written and thoughtfully argued, this provocative book is essential reading for military and social historians, and those with an interest in the interaction of citizens and the state.
– Tim Cook, author of Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918
I was unlucky enough to get in the way of one of the shrapnel bullets. I felt a slight sting in my right temple as though pricked by a red-hot needle – and then the world became black. Dawn was now breaking, but night had sealed my eyes.
– James Rawlinson, blinded at Vimy, 1917
Books written about the conflict record major political decisions and their results; they speak of generals, and of heroes. There is a paucity of literary tribute to those who offered their youth to war; nor are there books which tell of the disabled, the war blinded, the amputee, the burnt-out veteran.
– David Dorward, blinded in Sicily, 1943
– Peter Neary, co-editor of The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada
Among many other things, Veterans with a Vision is the history of the most successful and influential of Canada’s disabled veterans, the war-blinded. Durflinger makes no secret of his admiration for Edwin Baker, the blinded engineer whose vision of the most appropriate role and treatment of the war-blinded, coupled with his acute sense of real-politik, make him a model for anyone seeking to guide an NGO to success. This timely book will interest anyone involved in disability as a social phenomenon and should inspire comparable volumes for other categories of disability, whether war-related or a consequence of civil life.
– Desmond Morton, author of Fight or Pay: Soldiers’ Families in the Great War
Based on fascinating personal stories, thorough archival research, and rigorous scholarship, Veterans with a Vision illuminates the lives of Canadian veterans from the world wars and their integration back into society as contributing members. Durflinger tracks the veterans’ decades-long battles, as they mobilized to establish organizations to meet their unique ends and pressure the government for more generous rights and pensions. Well-written and thoughtfully argued, this provocative book is essential reading for military and social historians, and those with an interest in the interaction of citizens and the state.
– Tim Cook, author of Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918
I was unlucky enough to get in the way of one of the shrapnel bullets. I felt a slight sting in my right temple as though pricked by a red-hot needle – and then the world became black. Dawn was now breaking, but night had sealed my eyes.
– James Rawlinson, blinded at Vimy, 1917
Books written about the conflict record major political decisions and their results; they speak of generals, and of heroes. There is a paucity of literary tribute to those who offered their youth to war; nor are there books which tell of the disabled, the war blinded, the amputee, the burnt-out veteran.
– David Dorward, blinded in Sicily, 1943
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History has told us something about our war dead but very little about our war wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada’s war-blinded veterans and of the organization they founded in 1922, the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded. Serge Durflinger details the veterans’ process of civil re-establishment, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and social and personal coping and describes their public advocacy for government pension entitlements, job retraining, and other social programs. This book captures the spirit of perseverance that permeated the veterans’ community and highlights the accomplishments of the war blinded as advocates for all Canadian veterans and for all blind citizens.
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