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  • Canada in war-paint

    by Ralph W. Bell ...
    The title Canada in War-Paint likely refers to the symbolic use of Indigenous imagery in Canada’s war effort, where "war-paint" is a metaphor for the connection between Canada’s military actions and the historic traditions of its Indigenous populations. Bell delves into how the Canadian government and military leaders sought to recruit Indigenous soldiers and how Indigenous warriors and ... Read more

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  • Canada in war-paint

    A Patriotic Journey Through Canada's Military History

    by Ralph W. Bell ...
    In "Canada in War-Paint," Ralph W. Bell presents a vibrant exploration of Canada'Äôs multifaceted identity during times of conflict. Employing a rich, descriptive literary style, Bell intertwines historical narrative with vivid imagery, examining how war shapes and reflects the Canadian landscape and its people. The book delves into significant events, cultural responses, and the often-overlooked ... Read more

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  • Canada in War-Paint

    by Ralph W. Bell ...
    Books about the Military History of Canada begin with warfare between its indigenous tribes. The British defeated the French in Canada, and the Northern Colonies didn't participate in the American Revolution against the United Kingdom. After the War of 1812 Canadian provinces enjoyed a period of relative peace, culminating in the Canadian Confederation in 1867. Canadian forces made a significant ... Read more

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    by Bernard Adams ...
    Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation."Nothing of Importance", Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion is considered one of the finest World War I memoirs. It gives an incredible description of trench wafare. ... Read more

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  • War Is War

    by A. M. Burrage ...
    Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a ... Read more

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  • A Passionate Prodigality

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    by Guy Chapman ...
    This classic WWI memoir by a decorated infantryman and historian presents a vivid account of life in the trenches on the Western Front.During World War One, Major Guy Chapman, OBE MC, served in the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. Joining soon after war was declared, Chapman was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of Arras.When Chapman's memoir, A ... Read more

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  • Covered With Mud And Glory: A Machine Gun Company In Action ("Ma Mitrailleuse")

    by Georges Lafond ...
    Translated by Anon. ...
    The author of this book, SERGEANT-MAJOR GEORGES LAFOND, of the Territorial Hussars, was in South America at the time of mobilization. He returned to France as soon as possible and joined his corps, but asked to be assigned as intelligence officer to the machine-gun sections of the first regiment of Colonial Infantry.With this picked corps, which has been decimated several times, he took part in ... Read more

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  • The First Hundred Thousand

    by Ian Hay ...
    Series series World War Classics Presents
    The First Hundred Thousand tells the story in novel form of an infantry unit of Kitchener's volunteer army from its formation in August 1914 to its recovery after its first great battle - Loos in September 1915. Told by Ian Hay Beith in a style of humour that rings strange to the modern civilian ear, it is perfectly in tune with that mood that British soldiers from Hastings to Basra have relied ... Read more

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  • Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army

    by James Norman Hall ...
    This brief narrative is by no means a complete record of life in a battalion of one of Lord Kitchener's first armies. It is, rather, a story in outline, a mere suggestion of that life as it is lived in the British lines along the western front. If those who read gain thereby a more intimate view of trench warfare, and of the men who are so gallantly and cheerfully laying down their lives for ... Read more

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  • FUNNY STORIES from the GREAT WAR - Trench humour, Pranks and Jokes during WWI

    by Anon E. Mouse ...
    Even in the midst of the death and destruction of war there are strange and funny occurrences. Occurrences made hilarious and farcical because of the circumstance in which they occur. These hilarious occasions are more often than not recalled with greater ease and much mirth long after the war has ended and everyone has gone home. Their recall is made easier if only because soldiers would prefer ... Read more

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  • The Wet Flanders Plain

    by Henry Williamson ...
    The Wet Flanders Plain was first published in 1929 - also the year of, inter alia, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Graves's Goodbye to All That, and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Henry Williamson's book stands alongside those works as a classic of the Great War.In 1928 Williamson revisited the battlefields of Flanders and Northern France in the company of a fellow veteran. He wanted ... Read more

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  • A Woman's Diary of the War: (Annotated)

    by Sarah Broom Macnaughtan ...
    One of the most powerful descriptions of the scourge of the First World War by a woman who was on the front lines and ultimately gave her life for the cause.Scottish-born English novelist, Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (1864 – 1916) spent much of her life in the service of others in need. She worked for the Red Cross to aid soldiers and civilians in the Balkans, the Boer War, and WWI. She was a ... Read more

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