Generals Die in Bed: A Story from the Trenches - Softcover

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)

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.