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Canada in war-paint

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A series of wartime sketches that portray life with a Canadian infantry battalion during the First World War, mixing wry character portraits and camp routine—mud, leaking canvas, tent music, mules and rations—with plain accounts of front-line experience, including fighting at Courcelette and moments of carnage. The pieces catalogue duties and roles (batmen, adjutants, scouts), encounters with aeroplanes and anti-aircraft fire, relations with local inhabitants, marches, sickness and the strain of action, shifting between anecdotal humour and sober reflection while registering a steady longing for home.

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Title: Canada in war-paint

Author: Ralph W. Bell

Release date: July 31, 2022 [eBook #68654]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1917

Credits: David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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