The gunner

ISBN: 9781552443347 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1552443345 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781552443330 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1552443337 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource.
Publisher: Markham, Ontario : Red Deer Press, [2014]
Copyright: &copy;2014

Almond, Paul 1931- (author.).

Summary: Eric Alford's safe and romantic life on the peaceful Gaspe Coast is shattered by his decision to follow his elder brother John (the Pilgrim and The Chaplain) into the 1914-18 cataclysm of death and destruction known as the "Great War for Civilisation". By his thundering Howitzer, Gunner Alford assaults the Hun through every major Canadian battle of WWI: Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Hill 70, The Somme, and "The Hundred Days" that ended the conflict. A developing romance with a lovely Londoner is cut short by a German shell. Evacuated to a Rouen field hospital, he is surrounded by hellish wounds: blindness, amputations, and gas-inflicted horrors. Finally, back in Blighty among other shell-shock victims, he recovers and returns to his Gaspe home, bereft of his London love and changed forever.