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    Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War
    Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War
    Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War
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    Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War

    By Debbie Marshall and Anna Maria Tremonti

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    Read between the front lines: The stories of three Canadian female journalists stationed in England and France during the First World War.

    Europe: 1914–18. Mary MacLeod Moore, a writer for Saturday Night Magazine, covered the war’s impact on women, from the munitions factories to the kitchens of London’s tenements. Beatrice Nasmyth, a writer for the Vancouver Province, managed the successful wartime political campaign of Canadian Roberta MacAdams and attended the Versailles Peace Conference as Premier Arthur Sifton’s press secretary. Elizabeth Montizambert was in France during the war and witnessed the suffering of its people first-hand. She was often near the fighting, serving as a canteen worker and writing about her experiences for the Montreal Gazette.

    The reportage from these three women presents an insightful, moving, funny, and compelling body of observations of a devastating conflict, from underrepresented points of view. Firing Lines is based on the letters, articles, and books they wrote, as well as the records of those who knew them. The book offers a fresh perspective on a war that touched nearly every Canadian family and changed our sense of ourselves as a nation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateFeb 18, 2017
    ISBN9781459738393
    Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War
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    Debbie Marshall

    Debbie Marshall is a writer, editor, and playwright. She is the author of Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey into the Great War, the story of Roberta MacAdams, a First World War nurse and politician. Her play Firing Lines is based on the Great War writings of foreign correspondent Beatrice Nasmyth, and was produced in conjunction with the Provincial Archives of Alberta in August 2012 at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Debbie also writes a monthly blog that features Canadian nurses who died during the First World War. To learn more, please visit www.rememberingfirstworldwarnurses.blogspot.ca.

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