Welcome to Flanders Field - The First Canadian Battle of the Great War, Ypres, 1915 by Dancocks, Daniel G,

Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1988., Canadian first edition, paper covers, 6 x 9, VG condition ( slight corner bend on front cover), 292 pages, a few illus, orders of battle, notes, bibliog., index.-----------------------------------In August 1914 young Canadians across the country cheered the news that war had broken out in Europe, and rushed to join the army. High school kids, lawyers, loggers, journalists, miners, farmers, and bank clerks, they all marched off down the country's Main Streets, eager for the glory of war. Many of them - and we encounter many of them in this book - desperately hoped they would be in time "to get in on the fun." This stunning book is about the hell that awaited them in their first battle in France, and about how they dealt with their baptism of fire. The Second Battle of Ypres, 1915, brought the war home to Canada.