Her Darling Boy
Subtitle: A Tale of Vimy Ridge
Publisher: Great Plains Publications
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781927855478
Subjects: World war, 1914-1918, france; World war, 1914-1918, canada; Vimy ridge, battle of, france, 1917
Description: "The battle for Vimy Ridge one hundred years ago has been characterized as a defining moment in Canadian history. The idea of thousands of Canadian young men dying together in the mud and tangled wire of northern France was, and still is, considered by many as nation-building. Tom Goodman generally accepted this view until he discovered a rich trove of letters between his grandmother and Archie Polson, the uncle he has never met. Reading through the exchanges, Goodman came to realize that war is sometimes about winning, but it is always about loss. He has now collected many of these letters, along with his own contextual narrative, so that we can see the true cost of war to a family and a country."--