This film is about the soldiers life in the trenches, which began as just isolated dugouts but soon expanded into complex networks. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device. Audiobook recording of charles yale harrisons wwi novel. An unnamed young canadian soldiers account of warfare, both in the trenches and behind the lines, in france. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. A new introduction to this edition places harrisons novel with its literary contemporaries. He is the older brother to another german soldier that harrison took as prisoner, and was killed after he got a bayonet. A young soldier with the canadian forces questions the meaning of heroism, of truth, and of good and. It is a firstperson narrative by an unnamed 18yearold canadian soldier about his war experiences from the. He wrote another antiwar novel, called meet me on the barricades.
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