Hold the Oxo!: A Teenage Soldier Writes Home

Canada was young. As many as 20,000 underage soldiers left their homes to serve in World War I. Jim, at 17, was one of them. His letters home gloss over the horrors of war, focusing on issues of the home front: of harvesting, training the horses, and the price of hogs. His letters rested ninety-five years in a shoebox decorated by his mother.