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The heartbreaking new picture book from Montreal illustrator Jacques Goldstyn is dedicated to George Lawrence Price, a Nova Scotia–born infantryman who died on a First World War battlefield at 10:58 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918 – literally minutes before the armistice that ended the war.
In The Eleventh Hour, Goldstyn fictionalizes that historical event, using it as the narrative hook for a story that provides a very brief history of the conflict that devastated Europe and transformed the world, as well as an affecting portrait of two young friends who get pulled into the bloody churn of war. |