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Vimy trap, or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the Great War
How we learned to stop worrying and love the Great War
"The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. "Vimyism"--Today's official story of glorious, martial patriotism--contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nation-building milestone? Contending Great War memories have helped to shape how later wars were imagined. The Vimy Trap provides a powerful probe of commemoration cultures. This subtle, fast-paced work of public history--combining scholarly insight with sharp-eyed journalism, and based on primary sources and school textbooks, battlefield visits and war art--explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory."--
Prologue: "the dead on the field" -- Myths, memories, and a creation story -- A great war of attrition and futility: a capsule history -- In the wake of war: experiencing and remembering -- The wounds of memory, the push for peace -- The contested politics of peace and war -- Sculpting the jagged edges of war: momentous questions, monumental decisions -- The long and winding road to vimyism -- Vimy: the emerging myth -- The landscapes of great war memory.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-357) and index.