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1 online resource : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) |
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Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Prologue: Two Grandfathers -- Charles Wellington Camden Chapman -- Louisa "Bebe" Watson Small Peat -- Holiday Truce -- What Happened at the Front -- Marrying Well -- Yesteryear's Social Media -- Timeline -- 1914 -- 1915 -- 1916 -- 1917 -- 1918 -- 1919 -- 1920 -- 1: Going on to War -- A Territory Goes to War -- Too Young -- Three Years a Prisoner in Germany -- 2: Wartime Racism -- In the Air, on the Ground -- Yes, in the Great War: Code Talkers -- Washington State to BC to War -- Most Decorated with Three Military Medals |
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Brigadier-to-Be from the Six Nations -- A Brilliant Reflection of His People -- Colour Barriers -- Brave is . . . -- The Caribbean at War -- Honoured Decades Late -- Anyone's War: Muslims Fighting for the Allies -- Crossing that River -- Valour before Citizenship -- Forgotten Medals -- 3: In the Trenches -- Ground Zero: Ypres, Wipers, Ieper -- First Gassed at Kitcheners' Wood: They Held the Ground -- A Rare Place at the Front: Poperinge -- Lijssenthoek: Where Names Match Bones -- Veiled in Shadow: Vancouver Corner -- Birth of a Poem and a Legend: Essex Farm -- Mad about Lusitania |
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From New York City to the Front -- Immigrant Home to Stay -- How to Bury a Man at Sea -- On the Trail of Five Bronze Caribou -- Heroic Even in Death -- Regret to Inform -- Awful Somme -- The Whole Side Wall Had Come Out -- Walking Wounded -- Leave the Light On -- Hockey Hall of Famers -- Front Fare -- Little Brown Jug -- Wartime Humour -- 4: Women's Work -- Rosie the Riveter of Her Day -- The Only English Woman Soldier -- In His Place -- A Stamp for Her -- Nobel Winner and X-Rays -- Nurses at the Forefront -- Leading in Research -- Fundamentally a Pacifist -- Patriotism Is Not Enough |
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Air Raid Claims -- Full Military Honours -- Talent for the Troops -- Who Put the Poppy on Your Lapel? -- 5: Not Wanting to Fight -- Baby Talk: Conscientious Objectors -- Make Me: Propaganda -- Shot at Dawn -- Execution Squad -- Talk This Out -- 6: 1917 and 1918 -- April 1917: America Joins the Frayed -- Over There -- Unforgettable -- Death Penny -- Take This Ring: A Will at the Front -- Finishing the Journal -- Alberta Olympian -- Inuit Hero on Thin Ice -- Passchendaele -- No Time for Tenderness -- Why Me? -- Super Sniper -- Brave Rush -- Out Past the Onions: Memorial to the Fighting 85th |
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Step into History: The Passchendaele Museum -- Take to the Skies -- July and August in March: Julius Bauer and August Buhler -- Seven Pebbles -- Dogged Optimism: More Lives Than a Cat -- Family Sacrifice: Far from Pleasant -- Family of Service -- Please Send My Brother Home -- An Unwilling Sacrifice -- Reprieve Too Late -- War and Politics: Conscription, American Style -- Conscription au Canada -- Give the Other Vote to the Sister -- We Have Stolen Mrs. Black -- Damn the Torpedoes -- Promises to Keep -- Two Members of Parliament -- A Close, Close Call -- 7: Final Push -- The Last One Hundred Days |
| Summary |
"After receiving a bundle of worn letters written by her late grandfather George 'Black Jack' Vowel during the First World War, journalist Jacqueline Carmichael became fascinated with the daily realities and personal stories of those who had lived through that pivotal and harrowing period in history. Reaching beyond the battlefield descriptions found in most history books, Carmichael presents unforgettable accounts filled with drama, hope, and heartbreak culled from journals and letters of Allied soldiers and nurses. From tales of men 'shot at dawn' under charges of desertion or cowardice, to women cross-dressing to get into battle, to a Canadian Member of Parliament whose PTSD-induced death was barely acknowledged by Ottawa for nearly a century, True Stories from the Western Front reflects the human face of war. Featuring profiles of people from every Canadian province and many American states, including soldiers of Indigenous, Asian, Indo-Canadian, and African-Canadian and -American backgrounds, this book is a touching tribute illustrated throughout by WWI-era photos, postcards, documents, and the author's contemporary photos from battlefield sites and monuments."-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
PDF format has an index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF version (Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection, viewed January 5, 2021) |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada -- Biography
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Canadian
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World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
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World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Biography
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American
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Canada
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1772033383 |
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9781772033380 |
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