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From the Klondike to Berlin : the Yukon in World War I / Michael Gates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gates, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Soldiers--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Yukon--Biography.
- Yukon.
- Yukon--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Madeira Park, BC : Lost Moose, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Nearly a thousand Yukoners, a quarter of the population, enlisted before the end of the Great War. They were lawyers, bankers, piano tuners, dockworkers and miners who became soldiers, nurses and snipers; brave men and women who traded the isolated beauty of the north for the muddy, crowded horror of the battlefields. Those who stayed home were no less important to the war's outcome--by March of 1916, the Dawson Daily News estimated that Yukoners had donated often and generously at a rate of $12 per capita compared to the dollar per person donated elsewhere in the country. Historian Michael Gates tells us the stories of both those who left and those on the home front, including the adventures of Joe Boyle, who successfully escorted the Romanian crown jewels on a 1,300-kilometre journey through Russia in spite of robbers, ambushes, gunfire, explosions, fuel shortages and barricades. Gates also recounts the home-front efforts of Martha Black, who raised thousands of dollars and eventually travelled to Europe where she acted as an advocate for the Yukon boys. Stories of these heroes and many others are vividly recounted with impeccable research."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Maps
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1914-1916
- War is Declared
- The Volunteers
- On the Home Front
- Fifty Brave Men
- A New Kind of War
- The Battlefields of France
- The Black Contingent
- Going Outside
- Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
- 1917
- Bound for Blighty
- Trench Warfare
- Home Fires
- Mrs. Black Goes to War
- The Battle for Vimy Ridge
- Death and Glory at Passchendaele
- The Adventures of Joe Boyle
- 1917-1918
- Changes at Home
- Letters Home
- Not Quiet on the Western Front
- Zeebrugge-Ostend
- Amiens and the Hundred Days
- Armistice: Triumph and Tragedy
- Joe Boyle and the Queen of Romania
- 1919 and Beyond
- Occupation
- Homeward Bound
- Riots and Discontent
- Remembering
- Closure
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix: Honour Roll
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781550177770
- 155017777X
- OCLC:
- 1152269179
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