Great Canadian War Stories

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Muriel Whitaker
University of Alberta, 2001 - 271 pages
Great Canadian War Stories shows how the experience of Canada at war captured the imagination of fiction writers across the country. With selections from Timothy Findley, Joy Kogawa, Louis Caron, Thomas H. Raddall, Earle Birney, Roch Carrier and others, this audiobook chronicles the scope of Canadian war efforts in the first half of the twentieth century. From the trenches of the Western Front to the plains of the Spanish Civil War, from the skies of North Africa to the jungles of Borneo, Canadian writers present the face of war in its many guises. There are women and children who have lost their homes, and men who have lost their dreams and lives. There are strangers brought together by accident and bound in loyalty. There are adventurers and deserters, volunteers and victims, all revealed with an unmistakable authenticity of voice. Foreword by Peter Stursberg.
 

Contents

Thomas H Raddall Winters Tale
49
Hugh Garner The StretcherBearers
109
Edward Meade A Moonless Night
127
Andrew Campbell Ballantine Liontaming for Beginners
163
A MacMillan The Newspaper Writer
169
Colin McDougall The FiringSquad
175
Ralph Allen The Landing
193
Earle Birney Turvey is Considered for Knighthood
213
Roch Carrier Son of a Smaller Hero
231
A Memory of Europe After the Holocaust
237
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Muriel Whitaker is the editor of several volumes of Canadian short stories. Her father and two of her brothers served in the two world wars. She lives in Alberta and British Columbia.

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