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Book SynopsisAlthough the United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort400,000 of them overseasout of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000 were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a pivotal turning point in the history of the modern world, and its mindless slaughter shattered a generation and destroyed seemingly secure values. The literature that the First World War generated, and continues to generate so many years later, is enormous and addresses a multitude of cultural and social matters in the history of Canada and the war itself.Although many scholars have brilliantly analyzed the literature of the war, little has been done to catalog the writings of ordinary participants: men and women who served in the war and wrote about it but are not included among well-known poets,
Trade ReviewIn The Canadian Experience of the Great War, Brian Douglas Tennyson has done an immeasurable service for historians of the First World War, and, more importantly, for all those studying the war's impact on Canadian society, culture, and individual remembrance. * The Canadian Historical Review *
[This book is] as striking a work of research and scholarship as it is vital testimony to Canada’s record of service in historic conflict, altogether an invaluable addition to the Canadian national archive. * The Round Table *
