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Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942 (Footprints Series)

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Elizabeth Hillman enrolled at McGill University the week World War II started. As a freshman writing for the McGill Day-to-day, she covered torchlight football parades and dances on the Ritz Carleton hotel at the same time as in other places the paper reported U-boats torpedoing convoys and war planes plummeting into the British channel. Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs draws on her journal entries, articles from the Day-to-day, and headlines from the Montreal Gazette to color a vivid picture of day by day life on campus, alongside the civilian wartime experience in Canada. Part memoir, part history, the book touches on essential 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 all over 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 a long way from the battlefields.

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