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2024., Anthony Kirby Publishing Call No: NEW QWF Fic Kir Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Michael Sullivan and Virginia Martin are witnesses to the outbreak of WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Easter Rising in 1916 Dublin, and the horrors of the Great War at the Front in Belgium, the Somme and Arras / Vimy Ridge. Twenty-four-year-old bank official Michael enlists in the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, and joins the fighting in the trenches in Belgium. Virginia, a nursing student in Dublin, is asked to aid her fellow nurses in Cork to care for the survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania. Michael, lamed up with trench foot, returns to Ireland and is in Dublin when the Easter Rising occurs, in the difficult position as an Irish officer in the British Army as Irish Nationalists stage a rebellion. Michael rejoins the Leinster Regiment in time to fight in the Battle of the Somme, and in other offensives, including Arras / Vimy Ridge. Though disillusioned Michael Sullivan believes in the Dream of a Free Ireland. With Virginia at his side he looks towards a future there.
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2017., Adult, Allen Lane Canada Call No: 940.4 C771v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An examination of the battle of Vimy Ridge and how memory of it has evolved over 100 years. Unlike any other battle in Canadian history, Vimy Ridge has been described as the "birth of the nation." But few historians have examined how, or why the battle continues to resonate with Canadians. The Vimy battle that began April 9, 1917, was the first time the four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought together. Over 10,600 men were killed or injured over four days--twice the casualty rate of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. With new material and photographs from official archives and private collections from across Canada and around the world, Cook not only brings the battle to life, but tells the story of Canadian identity.
