Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps par Cynthia TomanSister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps Cynthia Toman Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2016, ix + 297 p., 34,95 $

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 552-555
Author(s):  
Marie-Claude Thifault
Author(s):  
Martha Hanna

An analysis of published and unpublished materials generated by the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the First World War demonstrates that Canadian doctors and nurses serving in France created a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.


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