Death so Noble will be of interest to specialists in First World War history and literature as well as a general audience.
1 The Just War
2 Christ in Flanders
3 O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
4 Accurs’d They Were Not There
5 The Soldier as Canada
6 Safeguarding the Past
7 If Ye Break Faith
8 To Found a Country
Conclusion
Bibliographic Essay
Jonathan Vance teaches in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Objects of Concern: Canadian Prisoners of War through the Twentieth Century (UBC Press, 1994).
Jonathan Vance … is to be congratulated on his fine achievement in spelling out how Canadians met this collective need to commemorate their war-time participation, suffering and death … His success in pulling together the previous Canadian writings and sources, including his splendid use of illustrations … is altogether admirable, excellently researched, finely published.
~John S. Conway, The Vancouver Sun
One attractive feature of this book is the illustrations, more than 80 of them, accompanied by excellent captions.
~Paul Fussell, The Globe and Mail
Francois-Xavier Garneau Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2000) - Commended
Dafoe Book Prize, J.W. Dafoe Foundation (1997) - Winner
Lionel Gelber Prize, Munk Centre for International Studies (Trinity College) (1997) - Short-listed
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association (1998) - Winner
