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Robert Ratcliffe Taylor

The Ones Who Have to Pay

The Soldiers-Poets of Victoria BC in the Great War 1914-1918

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When war in Europe broke out in 1914, why did so many men from Victoria, BC, Canada, enlist enthusiastically? What did they feel about the war they were fighting? What were their personal values? Were they ever disillusioned in the trenches of the Western Front? To what extent did they enjoy combat? How did they regard the German enemy? And faced with artillery bombardment, execrable living conditions, and the fear of death or maiming, what helped them to carry on? In researching these questions, the author found that Victoria was a unique city in several ways and that some assumptions about Canadian soldiers' trench experience may… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4669-9036-4
  • EAN: 9781466990364
  • Produktnummer: 14857983
  • Verlag: Trafford Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 280 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.1 cm 601 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
  • Gewicht: 601

Über den Autor


A Native of Victoria BC, Rob Taylor attended school there before going on to the University of Victoria (Victoria College), the University of British Columbia (BA History and English, MA History), Hamburg University, and Stanford University (PhD History). In St. Catharines, Ontario, he taught European History at Brock University, where he is Professor emeritus. He has published on German architecture and on the history of St Catharines and Victoria. He has also co-authored histories of the Welland Canals. Interested in how we react to our built environment, he was a co- founder of the Welland Canals Preservation Association and founding secretary of the Canadian Canal Society, and served on St Catharines Local Architecture Conservation Advisory Committee. He was active in the Niagara Opera Guild and Torch International. He lives in Victoria, where he has worked as a docent at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria....

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