Venus Passing: The Great War and the Death of Canadian Romance

Historians have written a great deal about the military aspects of Canada's Great War but little about the most intimate dimension of Canada's wartime experience: heterosexual romance. Did romance influence a man's decision to go to war or his behaviour on the battlefield? How did women who were left behind or widowed cope without their loved ones? How did lonely and sex-deprived soldiers cope? Did they remain faithful to their wives and girlfriends? And what effect did prolonged separation...