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Winner of the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, winner of the Dafoe Book Prize, and winner of the Charles P. Stacey Award.

Table of Contents

1 The Just War

2 Christ in Flanders

3 O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

4 Accurs’d They Were Not There

5 The Soldier as Canada

6 Safeguarding the Past

7 If Ye Break Faith

8 To Found a Country

Conclusion

Bibliographic Essay

About the Author

Jonathan Vance teaches in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Objects of Concern: Canadian Prisoners of War through the Twentieth Century (UBC Press, 1994).

Reviews

Jonathan Vance … is to be congratulated on his fine achievement in spelling out how Canadians met this collective need to commemorate their war-time participation, suffering and death … His success in pulling together the previous Canadian writings and sources, including his splendid use of illustrations … is altogether admirable, excellently researched, finely published.
*The Vancouver Sun*

One attractive feature of this book is the illustrations, more than 80 of them, accompanied by excellent captions.
*The Globe and Mail*