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OTHER VOYAGEUR CLASSICS TITLES
Contents
Introduction
PART I
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
PART II
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
PART III
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
PART IV
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter Xv
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Appendix I
Appendix II
Copyright
Michael Gnarowski — Series Editor
Dundurn Press presents the Voyageur Classics series, building on the tradition of exploration and rediscovery and bringing forward time-tested writing about the Canadian experience in all its varieties.
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Nearly eight decades after it was first published, and having been out of print for thirty-eight years, God’s Sparrows is now being republished as part of Dundurn Press’s Voyageur Classics series. It deserves a permanent place in Canada’s literary canon. It is a great Canadian war novel, with a large cast of characters and an epic scope that addresses Canada’s war experience in a way few Canadian war novels can match. At the same time, God’s Sparrows has the courage to challenge many of the prevailing tropes of the anti-war novels of the 1920s and ’30s, where senior officers were treated as if they were the enemy (or died in bed), those on the home front were hopelessly naïve, and where soldiers were frequently portrayed as either innocent victims or savage killers. As Child would write, in the most frequently cited passage from the novel:
The thousands went into battle not ignobly, not as driven sheep or hired murderers — in many moods, doubtless — but as free men with a corporate if vague feeling of brotherhood because of a tradition they shared and an honest belief that they were doing their duty in a necessary task. He who says otherwise lies, or has forgotten.
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