Dwight Mercer’s Top 5 Books to start your research into the Great War

Dwight Mercer’s Top 5 Books to start your research into the Great War; all 5 titles are available thru RPL.

Challenge: Can you read all five?

Bonus Challenge: What are your top 5 Great War Books?

Marching to Armageddon - Canada and the Great War 1914-1919
Desmond Morton and J. L. Granatstein, Lester & Orpen Dennys, (1989)
- provides a good initial overview of the conflict from a CEF perspective
https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/32876


When Your Numbers Up - The Canadian Soldier in the First World War
Desmond Morton, Random House of Canada (1993)
- details training and life of a typical Canadian soldier
https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2522465


The Journal of Private Fraser - Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1918
CEF Books, Edited by Reginald Roy, (1998)
- personal journal on one man's direct experiences
https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/18254


The Secret History of Soldiers - How Canadians Survived the Great War
Tim Cook, Publisher: Allen Lane, 2018
- how soldiers found entertainment, solace, relief, and distraction from the relentless slaughter
https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2586227


The Embattled General – Sir Richard Turner VC
Richard Stewart, Publisher McGill-Queen’s University Press – 2015
- modern day re-assessment of a gifted Canadian officer from the Great War
https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/1423789
(NOTE: RPL only has the above title in eBook format)