Dan Black (1)
Autore di Old Enough to Fight: Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War
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- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 18
- Popolarità
- #630,789
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 6
As I was already interested in the stories of underage soldiers, I picked up "Old Enough to Fight" in part to see if the soldiers from Port Coquitlam were mentioned (they weren’t) but also in part to see how wide spread underage service was in WWI. According to Black and Boileau there were many boy soldiers who fought and the writers show us how prevalent they were as they take us through the battles that Canada fought by naming the teenagers who were there, many of whom died.
This book is not a mere catalogue of names; it shows us the boys in action, paying tribute to their contributions to the war effort. It also tells the story of Canada’s (and Newfoundland’s) war and the effect that the war had on the people of Canada and a whole generation. Canada matured as a country during the course of the war and the boys who joined matured as well. As Romeo Dellaire writes in his forward to the book, “The children involved in Canada’s War effort may have entered as innocent boys looking for adventure, honour, and purpose, but they underwent a maturation that many would not have originally anticipated.”… (altro)