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Canada's dream shall be of them : Canadian epitaphs of the Great War / Eric McGeer & Steve Douglas.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781771123105
- Physical Description: 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 23 x 28 cm
Content descriptions
| General Note: | A collection of some of the personal inscriptions found on the headstones of Canadian soldiers who fought and died in the Great War and who are at rest in various war cemeteries in France and Flanders. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Storied Vimy's Hill -- Farewell, beloved -- The Ypres salient -- He fell at the Somme -- Passchendaele -- The hundred days -- He sleeps not here but in hearts across the seas. |
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| Subject: | Epitaphs > Canada. World War, 1914-1918 > Casualties > Canada. Cemetaries > France. Cemetaries > Belgium > Flanders. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | 940.46571 McG | 31681003042868 | NONFIC | Available | - |
| Lakeshore Branch | LH REF 940.46571 McG | 31681003042876 | LH | Available | - |
- Book News
This color coffee table book features full-page, contemporary color photos of cemeteries and monuments in Flanders and France that are dedicated to fallen Canadian soldiers of WWI. The book also collects epitaphs from the Canadian war cemeteries and offers brief profiles of many of the fallen. Introductory essays describe the creation of the cemeteries and memorials and the role of designer Fabian Ware, as well as the founding of the Commonwealth Graves Commission (then called the Imperial War Graves Commission). There is also background on the battle of Vimy Ridge. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Ingram Publishing Services
There could be no truer witness to the enormity of the First World War and its terrible cost in lives than the memorials and war cemeteries along the old Western Front. In Canada, no less than in the other dominions of the British Empire, the war left a conflicting legacy of pride and sorrow that endures to this day.
The soaring Vimy Memorial, the Brooding Soldier, and the monuments honouring Canadaâs significant contribution to the Allied victory symbolize the spirit of shared sacrifice and nationhood that emerged from the crucible of the war. But alongside this official commemoration there exists a poignant, strangely overlooked, record of the grief and search for consolation among the Canadian populace in the years after the Armistice. This has come down in the personal inscriptions which the Imperial War Graves Commission invited next of kin to have engraved on the headstones of the fallen. Simple, heartfelt, often gems of compression, these farewells preserve the voice of Canadaâs bereaved, the parents, the wives, the children, who were left to mourn and to seek meaning and comfort in their loss.
This book offers an anthology of epitaphs drawn from the war cemeteries where Canadian soldiers lie buried in Flanders and France. Photographs and war art transport readers to the sites, and each chapter reviews the sources and themes of the epitaphs to establish their place in the national memory of the First World War.
- Univ of Toronto Pr
An anthology of epitaphs drawn from the war cemeteries where Canadian soldiers lie buried in Flanders and France. Photographs and war art will transport readers to the sites, and each chapter will review the sources and themes of the epitaphs to establish their place in the national memory of the First World War. - Univ of Toronto Pr
There could be no truer witness to the enormity of the First World War and its terrible cost in lives than the memorials and war cemeteries along the old Western Front. In Canada, no less than in the other dominions of the British Empire, the war left a conflicting legacy of pride and sorrow that endures to this day.
The soaring Vimy Memorial, the Brooding Soldier, and the monuments honouring Canadaâs significant contribution to the Allied victory symbolize the spirit of shared sacrifice and nationhood that emerged from the crucible of the war. But alongside this official commemoration there exists a poignant, strangely overlooked, record of the grief and search for consolation among the Canadian populace in the years after the Armistice. This has come down in the personal inscriptions which the Imperial War Graves Commission invited next of kin to have engraved on the headstones of the fallen. Simple, heartfelt, often gems of compression, these farewells preserve the voice of Canadaâs bereaved, the parents, the wives, the children, who were left to mourn and to seek meaning and comfort in their loss.
This book offers an anthology of epitaphs drawn from the war cemeteries where Canadian soldiers lie buried in Flanders and France. Photographs and war art transport readers to the sites, and each chapter reviews the sources and themes of the epitaphs to establish their place in the national memory of the First World War.
