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A Soldier's Place

The War Stories of Will R. Bird

By: Will R. Bird

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A Soldier's Place

The War Stories of Will R. Bird

By: Will R. Bird

A collection of World War I short fiction by the author of the memoir And We Go On. Nova Scotia–born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject, completing works of both fiction and nonfiction. For nearly two decades following the war, Bird published war stories in magazines and periodicals, which have now gone out of print and were never digitized, and the stories had long fallen into obscurity—until now. Carefully curated by author and editor Thomas Hodd, A Soldier’s Place is a selection of fifteen of Bird’s best combat stories, based on the experiences of himself and of others, covering all aspects of the war effort and following brave Canadian, American, and Australian soldiers.

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1771086319

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9781771086318

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And We Go On

A Memoir of the Great War

By: Will R. Bird,David Williams

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A Memoir of the Great War

By: Will R. Bird,David Williams

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. In an introduction and afterword, David Williams illuminates Bird's work by placing it within the genre of Great War literature and by discussing the book's publication history and reception.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773596194

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9780773596191

New Modular Science for Gcse.

By: Will Deloughry

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New Modular Science for Gcse.

By: Will Deloughry

Providing material for both the Foundation and Higher tiers of the revised NEAB and WJEC syllabuses, this series is an updated edition of "Modular Science for GCSE". This compendium volume contains six of the 12 modules of the series.

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Heinemann

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0435570544

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And We Go On

A Memoir of the Great War

By: Will R. Bird,David Williams

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