Canadian War Museum Book Club: Dr. Serge DurflingerOttawa, Ontario, March 16, 2007 — Fighting from Home, Dr. Serge Durflinger's latest work, paints a comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun (a suburb of Montreal) and of Verdunites themselves during the Second World War. Dr. Durflinger's book offers an innovative interpretive approach to wartime Canadian and Quebec social and cultural dynamics, and will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.
The CWM Book Club is an opportunity for participants to spend an intimate and informal evening discussing recent books on Canadian military history with the authors themselves. The admission fee includes wine and cheese.
WHAT: CWM Book Club: Dr. Serge Durflinger's Fighting from Home
WHERE: Atelier B, Canadian War Museum
WHEN: Thursday, March 22 at 6 p.m. (in English – Q&A; session in English and French)
COST: $10 (includes wine and cheese)
Dr. Serge Durflinger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, specializing in the study of war and Canadian society. From 1998 to 2003, he served as a historian at the Canadian War Museum.
To reserve space for the evening, please contact the Museum's call centre at 819-776-7000 or purchase your tickets at the Museum box office.
About the Canadian War Museum
The Canadian War Museum is the national museum of military history. It attempts to help all Canadians better understand their country's military history in its personal, national and international dimensions. The Museum emphasizes the human experience of war to explain the impact of organized human conflict on Canada and Canadians, and how, through war, conflict, and peace support operations, Canadians have affected, and have been affected by, the world around them. Special exhibitions and programs also explore non-Canadian and general themes related to the human experience of war and the subject of armed conflict, past and present.
Information (media):
Christina Selin
Manager, Communications
Canadian War Museum
Telephone: 819 776-8607
E-mail: mailto:christina.selin@warmuseum.ca
Pierre Leduc
Media Relations Officer
Canadian War Museum
Phone: 819 776-8608
E-mail: mailto:pierre.leduc@warmuseum.ca
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