It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF: 1916-1919

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“We took our positions, five kneeling and five standing … we got the order to fire. One blank and nine live rounds … I didn’t have the blank.”

That is the voice of Deward Barnes, an unwilling but dutiful member of the firing squad that shot Harold Lodge, one in all 25 Canadians executed all the way through the First World War. In this diary we hear something that may be another way gone ceaselessly: the authentic voice of the First World War soldier, Everyman in khaki. Fully annontated in order that everyone as of late can take into account the nuance of each and every entry, the Barnes diary takes us into the trenches and the firing lines of the Western Front like no other first-hand Canadian account of that terrible war can. Like any trained infantryman, Deward could tell the kick of a live round from a blank one, and that kick he bestows on us with each and every turn of the page.

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