Our Jack Goes West A Commemorative Novelette

Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book.; 8.8 X 5.7 X 0.3 inches; 48 pages; This is a brief novelette about John McCrae's last days of service as a doctor on the frontlines in France during WWI. He is best known as the author of the memorial poem "In Flanders Fields", recited by thousands every Remembrance Day in Canada and by those in many countries affected by the war.

From Publisher:

Our Jack Goes West: A Commemorative Novelette by military historian, Susan Raby-Dunne is the fictionalized story of the last days and hours of Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae beginning at No.3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) and ending at the No.14 British Officers Hospital in Wimereux, France. On the centenary date marking the 100th year since his death, the story commemorates the service and struggles of John McCrae in his last days of service. It also illustrates the cost of war service by studying its effect on both a soldier and a war physician. John McCrae was both. He began his service in WWI as both an artillery soldier, and a surgeon. John McCrae was known to be shell shocked and this story shows the esteem in which he was held, but also his struggle with the malady now known as PTSD. His legacy is the internationally loved poem of the Great War, In Flanders Fields, which is still memorized and recited to this day in Commonwealth countries on Remembrance Day, and on Veterans Day.

Product Info

ISBN: 096933432X

ISBN-13: 9780969334323

Publisher: Bonfire Pictures

Year: 2018

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

Seller Info

AinsworthBooks

Address: #118 6540 Dogwood Drive Chilliwack, British Columbia

Website: https://www.ainsworthbooks.com

Country: Canada