From the West Coast to the Western Front : British Columbians and the Great War /

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Author / Creator:Forsythe, Mark, author.
Imprint:Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2014]
©2014
Description:261 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10130029
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Other authors / contributors:Dickson, Greg, 1956- author.
ISBN:9781550176667
1550176668
9781550176674
1550176676
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English.
Summary:Compiling stories, artifacts and photos sent in by BC Almanac listeners from across the province, this volume tells of submarine smuggling, bagpipes lost on the battlefield, and of the ongoing struggles by soldiers who made it home. It tells of battles that set records for mass death amid conditions of unequalled squalor, but also of the heroism of front-line nurses and soldiers like George McLean, a First Nations man from the Okanagan who won the Distinguished Conduct Medal. By turns devastating, harrowing, insightful and miraculous, these stories reveal much about the spirit and resilience of a people who survived one of history's greatest disasters to build the province we have today.

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Call Number: D640.A2F674 2014
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