The Great War as I saw it /
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| Author / Creator: | Scott, Frederick George, 1861-1944, author. |
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| Imprint: | Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014] |
| Description: | xliii, 327 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Carleton library series ; 230 Carleton library series ; 230. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10102619 |
| Summary: | A fifty-three-year-old Anglican priest and poet when the First World War broke out, Frederick George Scott was an improbable volunteer, but also an invaluable war memoirist about life at the front. Enlisting at the very beginning of the conflict and serving on the Western Front until the Armistice, Scott became the most decorated Canadian chaplain. A High Anglican and staunch British imperialist described by one of his fellow officers as "an old snob of the old school," Scott also defied stereotypes, often rejecting the privileges he was entitled to as an officer and insisting on being at the frontlines with the rank-and-file soldiers, with whom he felt genuine kinship. As a result, he was seriously wounded in the autumn of 1918, near the end of the war. The Great War as I Saw It is an idiosyncratic portrait by a man of strong religious convictions witnessing the horror of modern warfare. In evocative prose shaped by his background as a poet, Scott moves between lighthearted moments and dark tragedy, including his wrenching account of searching for his own son's body in a ruined battlefield. Rich in detail, it is one of the most diverse and complete first-hand accounts of the war ever published. |
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| Item Description: | First published in 1922; reprinted in 1934. |
| Physical Description: | xliii, 327 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780773544246 0773544240 9780773544253 0773544259 |
