Friday, July 14, 2017

I AM CANADA: WWI

Another formulaic Dear Canada war book. Boy goes off to war to be like his childhood friend, who was a few years older. Learns that war means having to actually kill people and watch others die and shell shock and all that. He gets caught up with some deserters after wandering off in shock during a battle and the book is framed as him telling his story to an officer that's come to sit with him in his final hours before execution. It's decent as the war books go, I guess, but as I've mentioned before, they don't interest me much.

Next, we've got two books about the Spanish flu epidemic and then I think we're finally through all the crap that happened during the WWI years.

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