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Generals Die in Bed: A Story from the Trenches

Generals Die in Bed: A Story from the Trenches

by Charles Yale Harrison (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $4.34
Synopsis

This title tells the stark and poignant story of a young man sent to fight on the Western Front during the First World War. It is an unimaginably harrowing journey, especially for one not yet old enough to vote. In sparse but gripping prose the author conveys a sense of the horrors of life in the trenches, where soldiers fight and die, entombed in mud, surrounded by rats and lice and forced to survive on little food.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 174
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Annick Press Ltd
Published: Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 1550377302
ISBN 13: 9781550377309

Media Reviews
This powerful literary work deserves an audience beyond young adults.--Linda Salisbury ForeWord (05/01/2002)
A stark and poignant novel.
The author, an American working in Canada, served with the Royal Montreal Regiment during the war. His fictionalized account of experiences in the vermin-filled trenches of Europe does not glorify the experience. First published in 1930, the book leaves no doubt that combat was brutal, conditions severe, and recruits not likely to die in the comfort of a bed. This new edition includes an introduction that places the book in context, plus a map of the front and archival photographs.... The writing is a terse staccato, echoing gunfire and pounding hearts, and reinforcing tension.... Period photographs add to the book's gritty, poignant reality. This powerful literary work deserves an audience beyond young adults.--Linda Salisbury ForeWord (05/01/2002)
A classic... an almost clinical account of war's brutalizing effects.--Brian Bethune Macleans (11/08/2004)
Author Bio

Charles Yale Harrison was born in 1898 in Philadelphia. He left school in grade four, and at the age of 16 began writing for the Montreal Star. Before long, he joined the Royal Montreal Regiment and fought as a machine-gunner in France and Belgium. He was wounded at Amiens in 1918 and returned to Montreal. Harrison worked as a theater manager and reporter before moving to New York City, where he earned his living as a public relations consultant, radio commentator, and writer.