Open AccessBehind the Lines: War Books of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, 1914 - 1918 (pp 233-260)
Author(s) -
Martha Hanna
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
papers of the bibliographical society of canada
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2562-8941
pISSN - 0067-6896
DOI - 10.33137/pbsc.v53i2.22555
Subject(s) - narrative , spanish civil war , first world war , world war ii , history , political science , law , art , literature , ancient history
An analysis of published and unpublished materials generated by the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the First World War demonstrates that Canadian doctors and nurses serving in France created a narrative of the Great War that was more optimistic in its message than the canonical war books written in the 1920s and 1930s and more internationalist in orientation than the dominant narrative of the war created in Canada after the war.