Alice and the Machine Gunner

<p>For decades David J. Forsyth has researched his ancestors' stories assembling an enormous cache of records and anecdotes. Although history is filled with the tales of the great and the powerful much less is known about the lives of ordinary people. Forsyth's goal in his research and in the writing of <em>Alice and the Machine Gunner</em> is to address that gap.</p><p><em>Alice and the Machine Gunner</em> is a conscientious blend of fact and fiction a multigenerational account of the Geherty family based on information gleaned from civil parish military and personal records as well as the reminiscences of the late Alice Geherty.</p><p>The author begins with Peter Geherty a 19th-century Irish linen weaver and concludes with the life story of his great-granddaughter Alice a London-born war bride. In 1919 she emigrated to Hamilton Ontario with little hope of ever seeing her parents again.</p><p>This engrossing work of creative nonfiction brings to life generations of people now departed as well as providing a vivid portrait of the city of Hamilton Ontario in the first half of the 209th century. In the process it opens the door to a deeper understanding of the past.</p>