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Her Darling Boy: A Tale of Vimy Ridge

By Tom Goodman

Book information

Publisher
Great Plains Publications
Year
2016
ISBN
9781927855522, 9781927855539, 9781927855478
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3433061 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-12-31 10:47:52
History; Military; Nonfiction; HIS027090

Description

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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