And We Go On (ePub)
A Memoir of the Great War
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take his dead...
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In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take his dead brother's place. And We Go On is a remarkable and harrowing memoir of his two years in the trenches of the Western Front, from October 1916 until the Armistice. When it first appeared in 1930, Bird's memoir was hailed by many veterans as the most authentic account of the war experience, uncompromising in its portrayal of the horror and savagery, while also honouring the bravery, camaraderie, and unexpected spirituality that flourished among the enlisted men. Written in part as a reaction to anti-war novels such as All Quiet on the Western Front, which Bird criticized for portraying the soldier as "e;a coarse-minded, profane creature, seeking only the solace of loose women or the courage of strong liquor,"e; And We Go On is a nuanced response to the trauma of war, suffused with an interest in the spiritual and the paranormal not found in other war literature. Long out of print, it is a true lost classic that arguably influenced numerous works in the Canadian literary canon, including novels by Robertson Davies and Timothy Findley.
Autoren-Porträt von Will R. Bird
Will R. Bird (1891-1984) was a prolific author of history, travel writing, and fiction, best known for his books on the First World War and on the history of Nova Scotia. David Williams is professor of English in St Paul's College at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Media, Memory, and the First World War and Imagined Nations: Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Will R. Bird
- 2014, Englisch
- Verlag: MQUP
- ISBN-10: 0773596194
- ISBN-13: 9780773596191
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2014
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