Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563807to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vimy Trap: or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War Author: Jamie Swift, Ian Mckay Narrator: John Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 15, 2021 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: 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.

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