Peregrine Acland

All Else Is Folly

A Tale of War and Passion

Buch

All Else Is Folly is a living memory of the Canadian experience in the First World War. Praised by Sir Robert Borden, this novel both commemorates and mourns the Canadian soldiers who fought for peace in a landscape of treachery.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4597-0423-7
EAN: 9781459704237
Produktnummer: 11988862
Verlag: Dundurn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 274 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 370 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 370

Über den Autor

Peregrine Acland (1891-1963) joined the Canadian Army in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War and quickly rose to the rank of an officer. He took part in the great battles of the Somme, which he describes vividly in All Else Is Folly.Brian Busby is a literary historian, independent scholar, and writer. He has written two books: Character Parts and A Gentleman of Pleasure. Busby is also the editor of In Flanders Fields and Other Poems of the First World War and War Poems.James Calhoun served briefly as a reserve private with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada. A book-collector and researcher with a particular interest in Canadian literature of the First World War, he lives in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.