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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 successfully only a few months before. His brother just stands and looks at him, dressed in his khakies holding his rifle. The author realizes his brother is dead and he also realizes he is being told to sign up and so off he goes. What follows is a personal take…
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. And We Go On is a remarkable and harrowing memoir of his two years in the trenches of the Western Front, from October 1916 until the Armistice. When it first appeared in 1930, Bird's memoir was hailed by many veterans as the most authentic account of the war experience, uncompromising…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
This book was a treasure I found by accident while researching for my current project. It is based on the stories of one of the last buffalo hunters and fur traders of the prairies, Norbert Welsh. He tells his story to Mary in 1931 when he is 87 and blind. His stories will curl your hair. How the west was settled has a whole new perspective thanks to his honest, don't sugar coat it style. Learn how to take down a buffalo, cut off its head, keep the tongue for dinner, skin the pelt so your wife can stretch it and clean it and transform it into a supple coat, or blanket, then butcher the meat and preserve half of it for your family for the winter, give the other half to your wife and family to cut into thin strips, dry, pulverize, mix with the boiled fat of the…
The Last Buffalo Hunter is one of the few surviving oral accounts of the old North-West during the late nineteenth century, providing a valuable record of the spirit and romance of a way of life that ended with the demise of the once-vast buffalo herds.
Mary Weekes first met Norbert Welsh - whose colorful life story is told here in his own words - in 1931 when he was eighty-seven. She was enthralled by this blind old man who had "a memory crowded with stories that belonged to the making of the West." He agreed to let her write about…
