All Else Is Folly: A Tale of War and Passion Contributor(s): Acland, Peregrine (Author), Busby, Brian (Introduction by), Calhoun, James R. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1459704231 ISBN-13: 9781459704237 Publisher: Dundurn Group OUR PRICE: $27.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | War & Military |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Voyageur Classics |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.21" W x 8.64" (0.68 lbs) 272 pages |
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Publisher Description: One of Canada's most painful and breathtaking pictures of a soldier's life during the First World War. |
Contributor Bio(s): Acland, Peregrine: - 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. Calhoun, James R.: -James Calhoun is the archivist for the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum and Archives. A writer with a particular interest in the Canadian literature of the First World War, he is the co-author, with Brian Busby, of the introduction to Peregrine Acland's All Else Is Folly. He lives in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Busby, Brian: -Brian Busby is a literary historian, independent scholar, and writer. He has written two books: Character Parts and A Gentleman of Pleasure. He is also the editor of In Flanders Fields and Other Poems of the First World War and War Poems. Ford, Ford Madox: -Ford Madox Ford, born Ford Hermann Hueffer, was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. |