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Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground, Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918), Stephen Massicotte's Mary's Wedding, and Frances Itani's Deafening, the book considers how writers have dealt with the compelling myth that the Canadian nation was born in the trenches of the Great War.
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For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period's poetry, and booksellers were told it was their duty to stock shelves with war poetry. Readers bought thousands of volumes of poetry. Twenty years later, by the time Canada went to war again, no one remembered any of it. Battle Lines traces the rise and disappearance of Canadian...
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Posthumous Lives explores the shifting significance of public and private efforts to commemorate British soldiers killed in World War I, as well as the less well-remembered casualties of the war, including VADs, nurses, conscientious objectors, civilians, and soldiers executed for desertion or cowardice-and the compelling hold the First World War has had on the British imagination for a century. Using the concept of the posthumous life-the attempt...
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Based on wartime letters published in the Atlantic magazine, this 1918 volume recounts the author's World War I experiences as a pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, the French-American flying corps, and, after American entry into the war, the 94th Pursuit Squadron of the Army Air Service. Hall's exciting adventures in the "Penguin" aircrafts describe a "learn to fly by trial and error" method, terrifying to say the least.
5) A Short History on the Royal Sussex Regiment From 1701 to 1926 - 35th Foot-107th Foot - With Brie
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This vintage book contains a fascinating account of the history of the Royal Sussex Regiment from 1701to 1926, with a detailed description of the role that they played in the First World War. This book will appeal to those with an interest in this particularly notable British military regiment, as well as British military history in general.
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• "Battle Honours"
• "Regimental Colour"
• "King's Colour"
• "Other Notable Honours"
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