A soldier's sketchbook: the illustrated First World War diary of R.H. Rabjohn
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Guerre, Première Guerre mondiale
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
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.