Why read And We Go On?

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In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take his dead brother's place.…

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1 author picked And We Go On as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Boni Thompson

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I loved this book because of the honesty of the author. It is an old book written by a Canadian veteran of World War 1. He tells his story of all the madness, death and his whole experience of war with a brutal and poignant honesty. He starts by telling why he joined up. He is from the east coast but found work for the season getting the harvest in, in the prairies. It is 1915. On a hot day is he out helping bring in the wheat and he looks up to see his little brother who had enlisted…

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