World War One comes off the page
You might think the legacy of WWI hangs on by a tenuous thread — as sad as it is, there are no longer any living veterans of that war. But we have the red poppy pins, In Flanders Fields, and countless books and movies to keep the story alive and to remind us of what Canadians won and lost in the conict of 1914-1918. Here are a few of the reads that best recount the era, with all its glory and losses. YOUTH FICTION. The book Road to War: A First World War Girls’ Diary, 1916-1917 is a ctionalized rst-person account that makes it real. The author puts a young woman in an active role as a WWI ambulance driver on the French front. YOUTH NON-FICTION. The Horrible Histories Handbook: Trenches: Would You Survive World War One? is an engaging look at the stark realities of ground warfare with great illustra- tions. NON-FICTION. For a Pulitzer-prize winning overview, read The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I, by Barbara W. Tuchman. For a contemporary re-examining of Canada’s role in the conict, check out military historian Gwynne Dyer’s Canada in the Great Power Game: 1914-2014. For an interesting twist, try Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis’
sweeping account of WWI and what it meant for mountaineering; it’s called Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest. NOVELS. First published in 1920, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front has become a classic. For the romantically inclined, Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks, has been on best book lists for the last 21 years.
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