Table of Contents
Preface to this New Edition Bruce Meyer xi
Foreword Barry Callaghan xiii
Introduction Bruce Meyer xix
War-Shaped Destiny J.M. Langstaff 1
War's New Apocalypse John Daniel Logan 2
1915 - The Development of Hate L. Moore Cosgrave 3
Bombardment Charles Yale Harrison 5
The Shell H. Smalley Sarson 11
Laventie Church H. Smalley Sarson 12
Over Boys and at Them Stanley A. Rutledge 13
Card Game Frank Prewett 14
A Letter Home Stanley A. Rutledge 15
My Mate Robert W. Service 17
Show Me Death W. Redvers Dent (Raymond Knister) 19
Anonymous: Corydon's Trench Song 24
After Reading Herrick at Neuve Eglise, 1915 H. Smalley Sarson 27
Anonymous: Cupid in Flanders 29
Diary of a Canadian Nurse Berta Carveth 30
Smoke Bernard Freeman Trotter 33
Remembrance Walter McLaren Imrie 35
The Queen's Military Hospital Album Berta Carveth 40
The Song of the Contact Patrol Hartley Munro Thomas 43
Diary of an Airman John Barnard Brophy 44
The Soldier Frank Prewett 50
My Search is Rewarded Frederick George Scott 51
Like a Thief in the Night Stanley A. Rutledge 57
A Visit to France's "Colonials" Beckles Willson 59
Love Song H. Smalley Sakson 62
Anonymous: Figments from Flanders 63
Cigarettes Frank P. Dixon 64
Willie Gierke Stanley A. Rutledge 68
No Man's Land A. Audette 70
P.: A C.E.F. Alphabet 72
All Else is Folly Peregrine Acland 73
Complimentary Dinner A. Audette 95
Anonymous: Some European Disease Germs 96
1916 - The Personal Hate Changes to Impersonal Loathing L. Moore Cosgrave 97
S.F.L: The Battalion Bard 99
Nellie L. McClung as Told by Private Simmons: The Prison Camp 103
Anonymous: Crossing Through 110
A Billet in Flanders Theodore Goodridge Roberts 111
Festubert Hartley Munro Thomas 112
The Canadian Golgotha Harold Peat 213
A Strange War Story Frank Prewett 115
The Void Between Frank Prewett 121
Letters: With the Guns John McCrae 122
In Flanders Fields John McCrae 127
London Charles Yale Harrison 128
Two Fine Ladies H. Smalley Sarson 138
R.L.: Segregation 140
I Stared at the Dead Frank Prewett 142
Nellie L. McClung as Told by Private Simmons: The Blackest Chapter of All 243
Ici Repose Bernard Freeman Trotter 150
Anonymous: Untitled 152
The German Prisoner: James Hartley 153
Voices of Women Frank Prewett 178
1917 - The loathing Changes to a Silent Contempt L. Moore Cosgrave 179
A Tragedy of War Frederick George Scott 182
Artillery Man's Farewell H.C. Mason 189
Harlaxton Stanley A. Rutledge 190
On the Wire Robert W. Service 192
Poison Gas George Nasmith 194
The Capture of Vimy Ridge Frederick George Scott 206
Letters from Vimy Ridge Agar Adamson 213
Lieut R.F.C., Missing, Believed Killed Hartley Munro Thomas 216
Two of Our Machines are Missing Hartley Munro Thomas 217
A Hymn for Aviators Hartley Munro Thomas 219
The Boy Who Came Back Stephen Leacock 220
The Strange-Looking Man Fanny Kemble Johnson 225
Afterword Margaret Atwood 231
Biographies 239
Glossary 249
Related Reading 258
Questions for Discussion 261
Acknowledgements 265
