Description
Zombie Army tells the story of Canada’s Second World War military conscripts – reluctant soldiers pejoratively known as “zombies” for their perceived similarity to the mindless movie monsters of the 1930s. Within the first full-length book at the subject in almost forty years, Byers combines up to now underused and newly came upon records to argue that even if conscripts were only accountable for home defence, they soon became a source from which the active army recruited in another country fighters. He also challenges the traditional nationalist-dominated impression that Quebec used to be just a grudging participant Within the war.