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Charles Yale Harrison
Generals Die in Bed is certainly one of the great titles in Canadian War literature, and given its status, it’s strange there are no photographs of the author published anywhere in Canada. If you hammer his name into Google, you’ll … Continue reading
George Stanley Godwin’s “Prisoners”
Best known as the author of Why Stay We Here? (1930) and The Eternal Forest (1929), it would appear that George Stanley Godwin also tried his hand as a war poet while serving with the 29th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary … Continue reading
Dominion Day 1917….
On this, the 150th anniversary of the confederation of the Dominion of Canada (i.e, Canada Day) we here at Field Punishment No.1 thought it timely to share one of our favourite pamphlets from the First World War: A Form … Continue reading
Will Bird’s “And We Go On” (1930)….
A recent addition to the collection here: a lovely first edition of Will Bird’s novel And We Go On (1930) in the extremely rare dustjacket. This example is chipped, battered, clumsily-tape-repaired and scribbled-upon, but it’s just scarce enough that I’m … Continue reading
Charles Samuel Bannell “His Offering”…
Charles Samuel Bannell Charles Samuel Bannell – His Offering
A Short History of Captured Guns…
Having just finished writing the introduction to Philip Child’s WWI novel God’s Sparrows (1937) for Dundurn (winter ’16/ spring ’17 publication date), I’ve decided to turn my attention to a poet named Charles Samuel Bannell, who served with the Seaforth … Continue reading
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