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HarperAvenue, 2022. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Toronto: HarperCollins, 2022. 308 pp, 9 5/16" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "A knife, a diary, a recipe book, a stringed instrument, and a cotton pouch. Each belonged to an individual who was in their twenties during the Second World War: a fresh-faced prairie boy, a melancholic youth, a capable cook, a musician wounded at the front, and a survivor. Joseph Pearson, a Canadian historian and author, talked to elderly family members, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances asking them the same question: Is there an object that tells your wartime story? In many cases, he asked the question in reverse: Could he discover the wartime story of a deceased person through an object they once owned? The journey began with the story of a German knife he inherited from his grandfather and continued with the search for meaning of others' everyday objects from the war. Through rigorous research and in engaging prose, Pearson illuminates the often-dark history of the twentieth century by… Read More

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