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The Canadian Experience of the Great War - A Guide to Memoirs (Hardcover, New)
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The Canadian Experience of the Great War - A Guide to Memoirs (Hardcover, New)
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Although the United States did not enter the First World War until
April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the
conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as
more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort 400,000 of
them overseas out of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000
were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a
pivotal turning point in the history of the modern world, and its
mindless slaughter shattered a generation and destroyed seemingly
secure values. The literature that the First World War generated,
and continues to generate so many years later, is enormous and
addresses a multitude of cultural and social matters in the history
of Canada and the war itself. Although many scholars have
brilliantly analyzed the literature of the war, little has been
done to catalog the writings of ordinary participants: men and
women who served in the war and wrote about it but are not included
among well-known poets, novelists, and memoirists. Indeed, we don t
even know how many titles these people published, nor do we know
how many more titles were added later by relatives who considered
the recollections or collected letters worthy of publication. Brian
Douglas Tennyson s The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A
Guide to Memoirs is the first attempt to identify all of the
published accounts of First World War experiences by Canadian
veterans."
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