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Title Statement | The Vimy trap or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the Great War / Ian McKay and Jamie Swift. |
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Author | McKay, Ian, 1953- |
Additional Contributors | Swift, Jamie,1951- |
Publication | Toronto: Between the Lines,2016. |
Extent of Item | 372 pages cm. |
ISBN | 9781771132756 (paperback) 1771132752 (paperback) |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary | "The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. "Vimyism"--today's official story of glorious, martial patriotism--contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nation-building milestone? Contending Great War memories have helped to shape how later wars were imagined. The Vimy Trap provides a powerful probe of commemoration cultures. This subtle, fast-paced work of public history--combining scholarly insight with sharp-eyed journalism, and based on primary sources and school textbooks, battlefield visits and war art--explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory."-- |
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By Topic | Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917 |
World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Canada | |
Collective memory--Canada |