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After The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

If this powerful story of love, loss and obsession has moved you to experience more, why not check out some of these books or videos that explore the same themes or landscapes.

The Sojourn by Alan Cumyn

This is the story of one young man’s experiences during WWI in the trenches of Ypres and the awakening he experiences when he travels on leave to London at the height of the war.

Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull

81-year-old Patrick, living out his final days in a nursing home, recalls his life focusing on the time during and after the First World War. Patrick met and fell in love with his dead army buddy’s girlfriend Julia, an affair that is complicated by Patrick’s wife and child. This is a novel of love, loss and war, beautifully told.

Back to the Front by Stephen O’Shea

This is an account of O’Shea’s 750-kilometre trek into the trenches of the Western Front, allowing the reader a glimpse into the countryside that was once no man’s land.

Courage Remembered by G. Kingsley Ward and Major Edwin Gibson

This book is a guide to the cemeteries and war memorials that were constructed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It tells the stories behind the construction and maintenance of these cemeteries and memorials of the Wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.

he Battle of Vimy Ridge – National Film Board of Canada

This four part video series traces the nation's wartime experience from the 1914 outbreak, through the grim reality of the Somme, to Canada being assigned the seemingly impossible mission of capturing Vimy Ridge and how at the end of four days in April 1917 Canada stunned the world by seizing the ridge in one of the war’s most successful and brilliantly planned offensives.