Georges Vanier, Soldier

Georges Vanier, Soldier
Author: Georges Philias Vanier
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2000-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1550023438

Chronicles the wartime experiences of Georges Vanier, who was Governor General of Canada from 1959 to 1967 and who served four years in the First World War.

Finding Common Ground

Finding Common Ground
Author: Jennifer Keene
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004191828

Representing the best of cutting-edge scholarship in First World War studies, this anthology demonstrates how conversations among historians across international and cross-disciplinary boundaries enhances our understanding of this global conflict.

Death Or Deliverance

Death Or Deliverance
Author: Teresa Iacobelli
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774825693

Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series often depict courts martial as brutal and inflexible, and social memories of this system of frontline justice have inspired modern movements to seek pardons for soldiers executed on the battlefield. In this powerful and moving book, Teresa Iacobelli looks beyond stories of callous generals and quick executions to consider the trials of nearly two hundred soldiers who were sentenced to death but spared by a disciplinary system capable of thoughtful review and compassion. By bringing to light these men's experiences, Death or Deliverance reconsiders an important chapter in the history of both a war and a nation.

Georges Vanier: Soldier

Georges Vanier: Soldier
Author: Deborah Cowley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2017-07-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781525255908

East Sandling Camp. 1 June 1915''''Captain Boyer and I are leaving for London to buy a motor car for the regiment. We will be staying at the Savoy.''''Flanders. 27 October 1915. Diary entry: 4:00 p.m.''''Returned to the trenches. After two days of rain, they are in a deplorable state. There is mud up to our knees. The parapets have collapsed in several spots. The nights are frigid, our feet are cold, and we have not yet received our supplies of wood and charcoal.''''In the field. 1 August 1918.''''You will pardon the brevity and the looseness of this letter when you know under what conditions it has been written. What you wish to know above all I can tell you at once. I am well - in fact I do not think I have ever been quite so well in body and in spirit. I have been protected in a special manner during the last three days. I have seen so many narrow escapes myself that I am beginning to think that one should not worry much about possible eventualities.''''No. 8 British Red Cross Hospital, Boulogne. 6 September 1918.''''By this time you will have received reassuring cablegrams and field postcards and possibly letters from friends of mine.''''First, to be quite frank, I will admit that I have not been in fit condition to write a coherent letter ...

Georges and Pauline Vanier

Georges and Pauline Vanier
Author: Mary Frances Coady
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2011-07-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0773585796

Georges and Pauline Vanier follows their lives and travels across the world - from Canadian military life to the League of Nations, from the inner circles of British government to their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France - detailing their disappointments and triumphs during social and political turbulence. With insight and sympathy, Mary Frances Coady tells their dramatic personal story. Revealing their remarkably vibrant personalities, she details the couple's support of the French resistance as well as Georges Vanier's pleas for the Canadian government to accept refugees fleeing Hitler's horrors and his effort to broaden immigration policy. She also recounts the importance of their religious convictions, their controversial standing among Quebecers, and their early advocacy of official bilingualism. An invigorating and well-told tale of their lasting legacies, Georges and Pauline Vanier is the definitive account of the enduring contributions the Vaniers made to the world and to their country.

Unlikely Soldiers

Unlikely Soldiers
Author: Jonathan Vance
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-06-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443403261

Published to rave reviews, this is the never-before-told story of two brilliant young Canadians who became unlikely soldiers. Ken Macalister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Frank Pickersgill was a doctoral student in classics at l’Université de Paris. Together, they volunteered for the British SOE and soon found themselves being trained to kill. On June 15, 1943, with false identities, they parachuted into the Rhone Valley, but there were double agents within the Resistance; too soon Macalister and Pickersgill were captured, tortured and put on a train for Germany. Vance has written a brilliant, heartbreaking book about heroism, betrayal and sacrifice, capturing the promise of a generation of young men who went to their deaths for a greater cause.