Reliving the Trenches

Reliving the Trenches
Author: Alan Filewod
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1771125047

In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical introduction that references the authors' service files to establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important addition to Canadian literature of the Great War. Important but overlooked war memoirs that relive trench life and warfare as experienced by combat veterans, the three plays include The P.B.I., written and staged in 1920 by recently returned veterans at the University of Toronto. Parts of this play appeared in print in serial form in 1922. Glory Hole, written in 1929 by William Stabler Atkinson, and Dawn in Heaven, written and staged in Winnipeg in 1934 by Simon Jauvoish, have never been published. These plays impact Canadian literature and theatre history by revealing a body of previously unknown modernist writing, and they impact life writing studies by showing how memoirs can be concealed behind genre conventions. They offer fascinating details of the daily routines of the soldiers in the trenches by bringing them back to life in theatrical re-enactment.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I
Author: Alan Axelrod, Ph.D.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2000-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101198982

You’re no idiot, of course. You know that World War I was “the Great War,” and you’re familiar with its images: muddy trenches, poison gas, and a no–man’s–land of craters and barbed wire. But when it comes to understanding its causes, why it dragged on for four years, and how it set the stage for World War II, you’re lost behind enemy lines. Don’t wave the white flag just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to World War I gives you a comprehensive overview of the first global war, from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • Broad coverage of the secret treaties and en-tangling alliances that led to war • Comprehensive analysis of some of history’s bloodiest battles, including the Somme, Tannenburg, Gallipoli, and Belleau Wood • Expert commentary on the development of weapons such as the tank, the dreadnought battleship, poison gas, and the German U-boat • Valuable insights into the war’s influence on this century’s political and cultural development

Land Writings

Land Writings
Author: James Riding
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2017-06-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1443873888

Whilst out walking one day in the shade at the age of thirty-six, with the First World War looming, Edward Thomas decided to become a poet. In the few years that followed, believing he belonged nowhere, he tramped across rolling chalk downland, stitching himself to the landscape. Gently slanting from the door of his stone cottage, the South Downs – a range of chalk hills that extend across the southeastern coastal counties of England from Hampshire in the west to Sussex in the east – became day by day the mainspring of his poetry. As a perennial poet and essayist of the South Downs, Edward Thomas remains an enduring presence a century later in the downland he trampled daily, treading and documenting a series of paths around the village of Steep, East Hampshire, where he lived until enlisting. Arranging itself around a number of journeys in pursuit of the early twentieth century poet and nature writer, this book provides a personal and moving tale of encountering literature in landscape, retreading Edward Thomas’s footprints from the beginning of his epically creative final four years, to the site where he died in 1917, during the Battle of Arras.

Pat Barker

Pat Barker
Author: John Brannigan
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780719065774

This book offers readings of Barker's innovations in narrative form, her revisionist perspectives on history, class and gender, and her preoccupation with themes of trauma, haunting and terror. It also analyzes the reasons for her success and significance as a novelist. The chapters draw on contemporary theories of critical realism, gender and social identities, memory and narrative, in order to outline the debates with which Barker's work has consistently engaged.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I
Author: Alan Axelrod
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780028639024

Provides coverage of the causes leading to war, famous battles, weapons, and the influence on political and cultural development, and includes biographical information on key figures.

Every Body Can Learn

Every Body Can Learn
Author: Marilyn Nikimaa Patterson
Publisher: Zephyr Press (AZ)
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The Glory of the Trenches; An Interpretation

The Glory of the Trenches; An Interpretation
Author: Coningsby Dawson
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781290852630

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