During my four years of work on the first two
Muskoka Novels, I did so much research on the Great War that I feel I just
can't leave it all behind without sharing some of the more intriguing and
surprising facts. Visit my website
4yearsofWW1 for more
information. Also listed there are lots of websites pertaining to the war.
See also the research and bibliography for
Book1 - The Summer Before The Storm
Additional books consulted for
Elusive Dawn:
Arthur, Max. Forgotten Voices of the Great War. The
Lyons Press, 2002
Astor, Nancy. My Two Countries. William Heinemann
Ltd., 1923
Attfield, Robert, ed. Browning Island, Lake Muskoka:
Cottagers Remember the Good Old Days. Fox Meadow Creations, 2000
Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Penguin, 1991 (Book 1
of the "Regeneration Trilogy")
Barker, Pat. The Eye in the Door. Penguin, 1993
(Book 2 of the "Regeneration Trilogy")
Barker, Pat. The Ghost Road. Penguin, 1995 (Book 3
of the "Regeneration Trilogy")
Beauchamp, Pat. Fanny Goes To War: An Englishwoman in
The F.A.N.Y. Corps. Diggory Press, 2005 (orig. pub. 1919)
Beckett, Ian. Home Front 1914-1918: How Britain
Survived the Great War. The National Archives, 2006
Berton, Pierre. Vimy. McClelland & Stewart,
1986
Bird, Will R. Ghosts Have Warm Hands. Clarke, Irwin
& Co., 1968
Brophy, John & Eric Partridge. Songs and Slang of
the British Soldier: 1914-1918. Eric Partridge Ltd. 1930
Boyden, Joseph. Three Day Road. Penguin, 2005
Canada in the Great World War; An Authentic Account of
the Military History of Canada From the Earliest Days to the Close of the War
of the Nations, V.6. United Publishers of Canada Ltd., 1921
Cameron, Kenneth. History of No.1 General Hospital,
Canadian Expeditionary Force: 1914-1919. The Tribune Press, 1938
Cantlie, Colonel Sir James. First Aid to the
Injured. St. John Ambulance Association, 1917
Chester, Lewis, & Jonathan Fenby. The Fall of the
House of Beaverbrook. Andre Deutsch. 1979
Christie, Norm, M. For King and Empire: the Canadians
at Vimy, April 1917. Bunker to Bunker Books, 1996
Coombs, Rose E.B., MBE. Before Endeavours Fade: A Guide
to the Battlefields of the First World War. An After The Battle
Publication, 1983
Cowley, Robert, ed. The Great War: Perspectives on the
First World War. Random House, 2003
Craig, Grace Morris. But this is Our War.
University of Toronto Press. 1981
Cushing, Harvey. From A Surgeon's Journal
1915-1918. McClelland & Stewart, 1936
Disciplinary Policy in Canadian Services 1914-1946.
Army Headquarters Historical Report 91, 1960
Driberg, Tom. Beaverbrook: A Study in Power and
Frustration. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1956
Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong. Vintage, 1993
Fetherstonhaugh, R.C. ed. No. 3 Canadian General
Hospital (McGill) 1914-1919. Gazette Printing Co., 1928
Findley, Timothy. The Wars. Penguin, 1977
Fleming, R.B. ed. The Wartime Letters of Leslie and
Cecil Frost 1915-1919. Wilfred Laurier Press, 2007
Graves, Robert. Goodbye To All That: An
Autobiography. Jonathan Cape, 1929
Guiou, Norman Miles. Transfusion: A Canadian Surgeon's
Story in War and Peace. Stoneycroft Publishing, 1985
Hansen, Arlen J. Gentlemen Volunteers : the story of
the American ambulance drivers in the Great War, August 1914-September
1918. Arcade Publishing, 1996
Harrison, Charles Yale. Generals Die in Bed: A Story
from the Trenches. Annick Press, 2002 (1928)
Hayes, Geoffrey, et al. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian
Reassessment. Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms. Scribner,
1929, 1957
Hibbard, Dominic. Wilfred Owen. Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 2002
Holden, Edith. The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
(1906), Webb & Bower, 1977
Jackson, Robert. Prisoners, 1914-18. Routledge,
1989
Johnson, Niall. Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza
Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue. Routledge, 2006
Kitz, Janet F. Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion
and the Road to Recovery. Nimbus Publishing Ltd., 1989
Kruger, Katherine Jane. Shell Shock: The first world
war and the modernization of psychiatry in Canada. University of Guelph,
Masters Thesis, 2006
Lee, Janet. War Girls: the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
in the First World War. Manchester University Press, 2005
Lewis, Cecil. Sagittarius Rising. Harcourt, Brace
& Co., 1936
Lewis, Cecil. Farewell to Wings. Arno Press, 1980
MacDonald, Laura M. Curse of the Narrows. Walker
and Co., 2005
Macdonald, Lyn. The Roses of No Man's Land.
Penguin, 1980, 1993
Macintyre, Lt. Col. D.E. Canada at Vimy. Peter
Martin Associates, 1967
McPhail, Sir Andrew. The Medical Services:Official
History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919. Ottawa, 1925
Morton, Desmond & J.L Granatstein. Marching to
Armageddon: Canadians and The Great War 1914-1919. Lester & Orpen
Dennys. 1989
Morton, Desmond. Silent Battle : Canadian Prisoners of
War in Germany, 1914-1919. Lester Publishing, 1992
Morton, Desmond. When Your Number's Up: The Canadian
Soldier in the First World War. Random House, 1993
Nicholson, Col. G. W. L. Canadian Expeditionary Force
- 1914-1919: Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War.
Queen's Printer, 1982
Norris, Marjorie Barron, ed. Medicine and Duty: The
World War 1 Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion
C.E.F. University of Calgary Press, 2007
Noyes, Frederick Walter. Stretcher bearers...at the
double!: history of the Fifth Canadian field ambulance which served overseas
during the great war of 1914-1918
O'Brien, Brendan. The Prettiest Spot in Muskoka.
Bobolink Books, 1999
Ogilvie, William G. Umty-Iddy-Umty: the Story of a
Canadian Signaller in the First World War. Boston Mills Press, 1982
Ostler, Rosemarie. Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: a
Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth
Century. Oxford University Press, 2005
Ouditt, Sharon. Fighting Forces, Writing Women:
Identity and Ideology in the First World War. Routledge, 1994.
Page, Geoffrey. Shot Down in Flames. Grub St. 1999
Patterson, Bob. A Spirited Story: A Family History of
the Pattersons. Privately published, 1992
Pirie, Alexander Howard. No. 3 Canadian General
Hospital (McGill) in France. Hood & Co., 1918
Quiney, Linda J. "Assistant Angels: Canadian Women as
Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses During and After the Great War, 1914-1930"
(Ph.D. diss., University of Ottawa, 2002)
Quiney, Linda J. "'Bravely and Loyally They Answered the
Call': St. John Ambulance, the Red Cross, and the Patriotic Service of Canadian
Women During the Great War1". (Paper, History of Intellectual Culture, 2005)
Rathbone, Irene. We That Were Young. The Feminist
Press, 1989 ( orig. pub. 1932)
Reid, Gordon. Poor Bloody Murder: Personal Memoirs of
the First World War. Mosaic Press, 1980
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western
Front. Ballantine., 1928
Report of the Work of the Military Hospitals
Commission. May 1917
Ritchie, Andrew R. Watchdog: A History of the Canadian
Provost Corps. The Canadian Provost Corps Association, 1995
Romkey, Bill & Bert Riggs, ed. Your Daughter Fanny:
the War Letters of Frances Cluett, VAD. Flanker Press, 2006
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry
Officer. Faber & Faber, 1930
Shaughnessy, Alfred, ed. Sarah: The Letters and Diaries
of a Courtier's Wife, 1906-1936. Peter Owen, 1989.
Smith, Grafton Elliot and Tom Hatherly Pear. Shell
Shock and Its Lessons. Manchester University Press, 1917
Smith, Helen Zenna. Not So Quiet… Stepdaughters of
War. The Feminist Press. 1930, 1989
Southard, Elmer E. Shell-Shock and other
Neuropsychiatric Problems. Arno Press, 1973
Thornton, Martin, ed. Nancy Astor's Canadian
Correspondence, 1912-1262. Edwin Mellen Press, 1997
Van Emden, Richard & Steve Humphries. All Quiet on
the Home Front. Headline, 2003
Von Richthofen, Manfred Freiherr. The Red Air Fighter.
(translation of Der Rote Kampfflieger, 1917) Arno Press, 1972
Walton, Charles H.A. Medical Odyssey: Vignettes of
People and Events at Home and Abroad. The Winnipeg Clinic, 1980
West, Rebecca. The Return of the Soldier. Dover
2002. (orig. 1918)
Wilson, Barbara M., ed. Ontario and the First World
War, 1914-1918 : a Collection of Documents. The Champlain Society, 1977
Winchester, Jim. A Chronology of Aviation. Grange
Books, 2007
Wood, Alan. The True History of Lord Beaverbrook.
Heinemann, 1965
Yeates, V.M. Winged Victory. Grub Street, 2005
(orig. 1934)
Videos :
Angels of Mercy: The Story
of Nursing Sisters from World Wars I & II. Sound Venture Productions
Ottawa Ltd., 1994
Canada's Greatest
Battles. National Film Board, 2006
Christie, Norm. For King
& Empire. King & Empire Productions Inc., 2001
75th Remembrance Day
Collection. National Film Board, 2006 and Koch Vision
Miscellaneous:
Eaton's Catalogues 1914-18
The (London) Times - various
dates throughout 1916 - 1918
The New York Times - various
dates throughout 1916 - 1918
The Toronto Star - various
dates throughout 1916 - 1918
Websites:
Too numerous to list! But
some can be seen on the Bonus
Features site.
