Her darling boy : a tale of Vimy Ridge / Tom Goodman.
Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : Great Plains Publications, 2016Description: 197 p. : b&w ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781927855478
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900 - 999 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | 940.431 GOOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001056507 |
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Includes index.
"The battle for Vimy Ridge one hundred years ago has been characterized as a defining moment in Canadian history. The idea of thousands of Canadian young men dying together in the mud and tangled wire of northern France was, and still is, considered by many as nation-building. Tom Goodman generally accepted this view until he discovered a rich trove of letters between his grandmother and Archie Polson, the uncle he has never met. Reading through the exchanges, Goodman came to realize that war is sometimes about winning, but it is always about loss. He has now collected many of these letters, along with his own contextual narrative, so that we can see the true cost of war to a family and a country."--
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