Zombie Army: The Canadian Army and Conscription in the Second World War

By Daniel Byers

Zombie Army tells the story of Canada's Second World War military conscripts - reluctant soldiers pejoratively referred to as "zombies" for their perceived similarity to the mindless movie monsters of the 1930s. In the first full-length book on the subject in almost forty years, Byers combines underused and newly discovered records to argue that although conscripts were only liable for home defence, they soon became a steady source of recruits from which the army found volunteers to serve overseas. He also challenges the traditional nationalist-dominated impression that Quebec participated only grudgingly in the war.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774830522
• ISBN13: 9780774830522
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 344 Pages