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At Vimy Ridge: Canada's greatest World War I victory
By Hugh Brewster. 2006
April 9, 2007 marks the 90th anniversary of the pivotal World War I battle - one that many historians view…
as the battle that defined Canada as a nation. Canadian soldiers achieved what more experienced soldiers From Britain and France could not - taking the strategic position of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. Includes a bibliography of books and websites, an index, and a glossary. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.A soldier's sketchbook: the illustrated First World War diary of R.H. Rabjohn
By John Wilson. 2017
Russell Rabjohn was just eighteen years old when he joined up to fight in the First World War. In his…
three years of soldiering, he experienced the highs and lows of army life, from a carefree leave in Paris to the anguish of seeing friends die around him. Private Rabjohn was also a trained artist, and drew everything he saw, including a captured pilot of a downed German biplane; the horrific Flanders mud; a German observation balloon exploding in midair; and the jubilant mood in the streets of Belgium when the Armistice is finally signed. With no surviving veterans of the First World War, Rabjohn's drawings are an unmatched visual record of a lost time. Grades 4-7. 2017.A short history of World War I (Short History Ser.)
By James L Stokesbury. 1981
A bear in war
By Stephanie Innes, Harry Endrulat. 2008
In 1916, at the height of the First World War, a Canadian teddy bear travelled all the way to France…
in a care package for Lawrence Rogers - a gift from his daughter Aileen. When Teddy returned from the front lines, he did so alone: Lieutenant Rogers, along with many other Canadian soldiers, died at the battle of Passchendaele. Here is Teddy's story - from his life in East Farnham, Quebec, to France, home, and eventually to the Canadian War Museum. Grades 2-4. 2008.1914: fight the good fight ; Britain, the army and the coming of the First World War
By Allan Mallinson. 2013
Allan Mallinson has written a new history of the origins - and the opening first few weeks fighting - of…
what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. 2013.La Première Guerre mondiale ((Idées reçues : histoire & civilisations ; 169))
By François Cochet. 2008
"L'assassinat de François Ferdinand a déclenché le début des hostilités" "La guerre devait être courte" "Ce fut principalement une guerre…
des tranchées" "Verdun, la boucherie" "Sans les États-Unis, la guerre aurait été perdue" "Toute une génération a été inutilement sacrifiée"... Issues de la tradition ou de l'air du temps, mêlant souvent vrai et faux, les idées reçues sont dans toutes les têtes. L'auteur les prend pour point de départ et apporte ici un éclairage distancié et approfondi sur ce que l'on sait ou croit savoir". -- 4e de couv.1914: fight the good fight : Britain, the army and the coming of the First World War
By Allan Mallinson. 2013
Allan Mallinson has written a new history of the origins - and the opening first few weeks fighting - of…
what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. He explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer, its almost calamitous experience of the first 20 days' fighting in Flanders, and the point at which the BEF took up the pick and the spade in the middle of September 1914. 2013.100 days to victory: how the Great War was fought & won
By Saul David. 2013
The history of any war is more than a list of key battles, and Saul David shows vividly how the…
First World War reached beyond the battlefield, touching upon events and lives which shaped the conduct and outcome of the conflict. Ranging from the young Adolf Hitler's reaction to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, through a Zeppelin raid on Scarborough, the tragic dramas of Gallipoli and the battlefields of the Western Front to the individual bravery of the first Indian VC, Saul David brings people and events dramatically to life. 2013.Where poppies grow: a World War I companion
By Linda Granfield. 2001
When World War I began in August 1914, no one knew that millions of people would die over the next…
4 agonizing years. No one imagined the effect it would have on family life, or that whole villages would disappear, or that entire nations would be changed forever. This history of the war is told through letters, prayers, and other pieces of history. Grades 3-6. 2001.Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania
By Erik Larson. 2015
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Germany had declared the…
seas around Britain to be a war zone, but the captain of the "Lusitania", William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the "Lusitania" made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small--hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. Bestseller. 2015.First World War: A Complete History
By Martin Gilbert. 1994
If almost every war is worse than expected, none was more so than World War I. Instead of lasting a…
few months, its four years brought loss of life and enormous suffering to millions. It caused the collapse of empires and redrew the map of Europe forever. Illusions on all sides - military, political and cultural were shattered. This book charts the ever-growing development and horror of the war - not only the great battles on the Eastern and Western Fronts but the war at sea, in the air and the effects of the war far from the frontline. Throughout, the book records the courage and heroism of individual soldiers and civilians of many nations in this account of the Great War.Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914
By Max Hastings. 2013
In 'Catastrophe', Max Hastings answers how World War I could ever have begun. Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St.…
Petersburg, from kings to corporals, he traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles; not the stalemates of later trench-warfare, but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a newly industrialised age. 2013.World War I: the Great War and the world it made
By John Ramsden. 2004
In this course, Queen Mary University of London professor, John Ramsden, examines the major events of World War I to…
further understand how they led us to the shaping of this new world. 2004.When your number's up: the Canadian soldier in the First World War
By Desmond Morton. 1993
Canadian historian Desmond Morton looks beyond the battles and events of the First World War and considers the men who…
actually did the fighting. He examines the reasons they joined the army, their training as soldiers, and what life was like for them at the front. He also asks about what happened to the wounded and the captured, and what became of those who made it home. 1993.Vimy
By Pierre Berton. 1986
In 1917, the Canadian Corps seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front, a feat thought impossible…
by the British, French and German forces. The author believes they succeeded because the men were civilians, with flexible minds unfettered by military rules. Bestseller 1986. Winner of the 1987 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award.Vimy: the battle and the legend
By Tim Cook. 2017
Cook examines the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and the way the memory of it has evolved over…
100 years. Vimy is unlike any other battle in Canadian history: it has been described as the "birth of the nation." But the meaning of that phrase has never been explored, nor has any writer explained why the battle continues to resonate with Canadians. The Vimy battle that began April 9, 1917, was the first time the four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought together. 10,600 men were killed or injured over four days--twice the casualty rate of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. Bestseller. 2017.Victory at Vimy: Canada comes of age, April 9-12, 1917
By Ted Barris. 2007
On Easter Monday April 9, 1917, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in…
northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire, and by nightfall the Germans had suffered a major setback. The Ridge, which other Allied troops had assaulted previously and failed to take, was firmly in Canadian hands. It was the first time Canadians had fought as a distinct national army, and in many ways it was a coming of age for the nation. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.Verdun: the lost history of the most important battle of World War I, 1914–1918
By John Mosier. 2014
Alongside Waterloo and Gettysburg, the Battle of Verdun during World War I stands as one of history's greatest clashes. Yet…
it is also one of the most complex and misunderstood. Conventional wisdom holds that the battle began in February 1916 and lasted until December, when the victorious French wrested all the territory they had lost back from the Germans. In fact, says historian John Mosier, from the very beginning of the war until the armistice in 1918, no fewer than eight distinct battles were waged for the possession of Verdun. These conflicts are largely unknown, even in France, owing to the obsessive secrecy of the French high command and its energetic propaganda campaign to fool the world into thinking that the war on the Western Front was a steady series of German checks and defeats. Although British historians have always seen Verdun as a one-year battle designed by the German chief of staff to bleed France white, Mosier's careful analysis of the German plans reveals a much more abstract and theoretical approach. Our understanding of Verdun has long been mired in myths, false assumptions, propaganda, and distortions. Now, using numerous accounts of military analysts, serving officers, and eyewitnesses, including French sources that have never been translated, Mosier offers a compelling reassessment of the Great War's most important battle. 2014.To end all wars: a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918
By Adam Hochschild. 2011
Hochschild focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for…
their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain's most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the "war to end all wars." Can we ever avoid repeating history? 2011.Tin-pots and pirate ships: Canadian naval forces and German sea raiders, 1880-1918
By Michael L Hadley, Roger F Sarty. 1991
The authors chart the origins of the Canadian Navy from the late 1800's to the end of World War One.…
Known as "The Bum Boat Fleet", the 200 ships, fisheries cruisers and private yachts reflected both Canada's real need for a navy in the face of the German imperialist threat, and Britain's reluctance to send much help. Tin Pots and Pirate Ships reveals the Canadian tradition of building a fleet only when needed, dismantling it once the conflict is over, and ultimately accepting terms dictated by alliance partners. c1991.