In Their Own Words

Three Maritimers Experience the Great War

Ross Hebb (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2018
Nimbus Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
9781771086707 (ISBN)

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What was the First World War really like for Maritimers overseas? This epistolary book, edited by historian Ross Hebb, contains the letters home of three Maritimers with distinct wartime experiences: a front-line soldier from Nova Scotia, a nurse from New Brunswick, and a conscripted fisherman from Prince Edward Island. Up until now, these complete sets of handwritten letters have remained with the families, who agreed to share them in time for the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War in 2018. These letters not only give insight into the war, but provide greater understanding of life in rural Maritime communities in the early 1900s.

In Their Own Words includes a learned introduction and background information on letter writers Eugene A. Poole, Sister Pauline Balloch, and Herry Heckbert, enabling readers to appreciate the context of these letters and their importance.

Ross Hebb is a native of Nova Scotia's South Shore and an eighth-generation descendant of the area's original Foreign Protestant settlers. A graduate of King's College and Dalhousie University, Dr. Hebb received his PhD from the University of Wales, Lampeter in 2002. Along with volumes on Maritime Church history, he has also written about the golden age of shipbuilding at St. Martins on the Bay of Fundy. In 2014 he edited the collection Letters Home: Maritimers and the Great War, 1914–1918. Dr. Hebb is married and lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	b&w images
Verlagsort	Halifax
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-13	9781771086707 / 9781771086707
Zustand	Neuware