BOOK: SACRED PLACES; CANADIAN CEMETERIES OF THE GREAT WAR; Vol I: BELGIUM 1915-1918

6 X 9; PB; 240 Pages. More than 200 portraits and illustrations. Sacred Places; Volume I; Belgium, tells the stories of the 168 cemeteries that contain the graves of Canadians who died in Belgium during the Great War. As no bodies could be repatriated, the men rest amongst their comrades in the war cemeteries that dot the countryside, freezing history, and revealing the true story of the War. The Canadians buried in these immaculate cemeteries in the fields around Ypres, the infamous Ypres Salient, died in great battles, such as Second Ypres, Mount Sorrel, or Passchendaele, or in the quiet times, when death was never far away. More than 16,000 Canadians died near Ypres, 1915-1918. This book tells the history of the cemeteries and of the Canadian buried in them. Norm Christie has written 18 books on the Canadians in the Great War, including the King & Empire series and hosted TV shows King & Empire and Lost Battlefields, amongst others. He was also Chief Records Officer of the CWGC and regularly leads Tours back to the Battlefields. In this series he reveals his unique knowledge obtained by more than 30 years of studying the Great War. Sacred Places; Canadian Cemeteries of the Great War, is to appear in three volumes, and is the companion series to For King & Empire. New condition. WS10624