And We Go on

Name: And We Go on
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press
SKU: 9780773543966
Price: 11789 HUF
Availability: PreOrder

A Memoir of the Great War

Szerző: David Williams, Will R Bird

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: McGill-Queen's University Press

Elérhetőség: Utánnyomás

Megjelenés ismeretlen

11 789 Ft

In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

David Williams, Will R Bird

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2014

oldal

280

EAN

9780773543966

ISBN

0773543961

Enbook ID

08013046

Kiadó

McGill-Queen's University Press

Súly

422

Méretek

228 x 154 x 22

Teljes leírás

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 "a coarse-minded, profane creature, seeking only the solace of loose women or the courage of strong liquor," 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.

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

And We Go on

A Memoir of the Great War

Információk a könyvről

Teljes leírás

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták