Canada’s Dream Shall Be of Them  -  Eric McGeer

Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War

KORTE INHOUD

More than sixty thousand Canadian soldiers died in World War I and were buried on battlefields far from their homes. To mark their graves, loved ones added epitaphs, which, a century later, remain heart-wrenching reminders of powerful grief and the search for consolation. This book reproduces over five hundred of those epitaphs, alongside stunning photographs of the battlefield today, their scars covered by grass and trees, but nonetheless still there. “Our dear Daddy and our hero," reads one epitaph. “Baby...
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2017 Uitgever: Uniform Press 220 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1910500666 ISBN-13: 9781910500668