Death So Noble
, by Vance, Jonathan Franklin William- ISBN: 9780774806008 | 0774806001
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/1999
This book examines Canada's collective memory of the First WorldWar through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a culturalhistory, considering art, music, and literature. Thematicallyorganized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, theimplications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of ajust war, the book draws on military records, memoirs, war memorials,newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, and films. It takes anunorthodox view of the Canadian war experience as a cultural andphilosophical force rather than as a political and military event.