Mysteries, Legends and Myths of the First World War: Canadian Soldiers in the Trenches and in the Air

Mysteries, Legends and Myths of the First World War: Canadian Soldiers in the Trenches and in the AirDescription by Cynthia J. Faryon Paperback This book offers a fresh, close up look at the First World War as it was experienced by ordinary Canadian soldiers. This is the war as it was experienced by the tens of thousands of young Canadians. Reading their accounts offers a no holds barred picture of fighting, life in the trenches, the human cost in lives lost, and the physical and emotional aftermath for survivors.

by Dan McCaffery

including the Red Baron's brother Lothar

Restoring historical agency to soldiers often considered passive and indifferent

' 'below-average' individuals

but his calls for ‘machines

personal beliefs and considered actions

But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war

The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years

became the touchstone of a transnational awareness of the absurdity of war and the need to prevent it

it reveals that Toby knew he wasn’t coming back and implies that his friend

the operators endured hardships and risked death or injury from gunfire

Fox Conner also tells the story of an interesting life