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Dafoe, John Wesley

 
9781331177371: Over the Canadian Battlefields (Classic Reprint): Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919: Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919 (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Travel through the Canadian battlefronts and discover how a nation shaped its identity at the edge of history.

This nonfiction work guides readers across the Western Front with a veteran eye for places, people, and the lasting impact of Canada’s war effort. It blends on-the-ground impressions of ruined towns and memorial landscapes with thoughtful reflections on sacrifice, leadership, and the forging of national pride. The book also considers practical ideas for how future generations might remember and learn from these chapters of history.

  • Vivid field observations of places like Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Amiens, and the Somme battlefields.
  • Analysis of Canada’s role in turning the war toward a decisive Allied victory.
  • Considerations of memorials, battle shrines, and the value of enduring records for future readers.
  • A hopeful look at how wartime courage informs national character and postwar policy.
Ideal for readers of history and memoirs who want a clear, grounded view of Canada’s part in the Great War and its lasting significance.

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Excerpt from Over the Canadian Battlefields: Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919

HE articles which go to make up this little book were written for news paper publication immediately fol lowing the journey over the battlefields, in France in March, 1919, which I had been enabled to make, through the courtesy and kindness of the Canadian Corps Comman der. They were published in April, 1919, in the Manitoba Free Press, Winnipeg; and are now republished at the request of many friends who have asked that they be made available in more permanent form. Though the articles reveal their journal istic origin alike in their form and in a certain evanescent timeliness, already part ly out of date it has not been considered ad~ visable, under the circumstances, to re-cast them into more permanent form. They are.

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