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Brothers far from home

the World War I diary of Eliza Bates

by Jean Little

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In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.

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