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Peregrine Acland

All Else Is Folly

A Tale of War and Passion

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One of Canada's most painful and breathtaking pictures of a soldier's life during the First World War. Peregrine Acland's novel All Else Is Folly is an irreplaceable depiction of the Canadian experience in the First World War. More than just a devastating portrayal of the terrors and hardships of trench warfare, the novel is also a profound meditation on the nature of man, one that draws on both the Nietzschean notion of man as warrior and Havelock Ellis's idea of man as lover. Subtitled a tale of war and passion, the novel was something of a bestseller in its time and drew significant critical praise. Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Borde… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4597-0425-1
  • EAN: 9781459704251
  • Produktnummer: 20459138
  • Verlag: Dundurn
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'065 KB
  • Reihenbandnummer: 25

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.

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