Padres in No Man’s Land Canadian Chaplains and the Great War
-70%
Availability: In Stock

Padres in No Man’s Land Canadian Chaplains and the Great War

SKU: 9780773564992

Original price was: $37.95.Current price is: $11.38.

Access Padres in No Man’s Land Canadian Chaplains and the Great War Now. Discount up to 90%

Categories: ,

Additional information

Full Title

Padres in No Man\'s Land Canadian Chaplains and the Great War
Author(s)

Duff Crerar
Edition
ISBN

9780773564992, 9780773512306
Publisher

McGill-Queen\'s University Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Tracing the growth of the Canadian Chaplain Service from its chaotic and controversy-ridden early days to its maturation as an efficient field force, Duff Crerar highlights both the role of the Service on the battlefield and the personal experiences of the chaplains. Refuting the widely held view that chaplains serving overseas were cloistered from front-line realities, Crerar describes the padres’ experiences in camps, hospitals, and on the battlefield. He examines how they maintained their faith in the face of death and destruction, and explores the bonds forged between chaplains and troops. Padres in No Man’s Land concludes in the postwar era with the decline of the chaplains’ hopes for spiritual renewal upon their return to Canada – their dreams dashed not by the war, but by the subsequent peace.

Related products