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Great Canadian war stories

Title
Great Canadian war stories / edited by Muriel Whitaker ; with a foreword by Peter Stursberg.
Publication
Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, ©2001.

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TextUse in library PR9197.35.W35 G74 2001Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Whitaker, Muriel A.
  • Stursberg, Peter.
Description
xxiv, 271 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • War stories, Canadian
  • Canadian fiction > 20th century
  • Canadian fiction
  • War stories, Canadian
  • Roman canadien de langue anglaise > 20e siècle
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Romans.
Contents
Foreword / Peter Stursberg -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : inheritors of glory : twentieth-century Canadian war stories / Muriel Whitaker -- Bird song / Timothy Findley -- The sniper / Charles Yale Harrison -- Sunrise for Peter / Will R. Bird -- Xero hour / Peregrine Acland -- Hard lines! / Anonymous -- Winter's tale / Thomas H. Raddall -- Munitions! / J. G. Sime -- George and the Red Baron / George Reid Clifford -- The bully / Greg Clark -- The draft dodger / Louis Caron -- The stretcher-bearers / Hugh Garner -- The porpoise that couldn't swim / Max Braithwaite -- A moonless night / Edward Meade -- Obasan / Joy Kogawa -- Getting rid of proudery and arrogance / Agnes Newton Keith -- Lion-taming for beginners / Andrew Campbell Ballantine -- The newspaper writer / D. A. MacMillan -- The firing-squad / Colin McDougall -- The landing / Ralph Allen -- Turvey is considered for knighthood / Earle Birney -- Son of a smaller hero / Roch Carrier -- Homecoming : a memory of Europe after the Holocaust / Henry Kreisel.
ISBN
  • 0888643837
  • 9780888643834
LCCN
2002421742
OCLC
  • ocm48076075
  • 48076075
  • SCSB-1367100
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library