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It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1916-1919
 
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It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1916-1919 (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd; annotated edition edition (1 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1550025120
  • ISBN-13: 978-1550025125
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 16 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"The reader is left with a profound admiration for someone who endured the eighteen months without breaking down." -- Gordon MacKinnon in Stand To!: The Journal of the Western Front Association, Number 76, April 2006.

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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 did not have the blank." That is the voice of Deward Barnes, an unwilling but dutiful member of the firing squad that shot Harold Lodge, one of 25 Canadians executed during the First World War. In this diary we hear something that is otherwise gone forever: the authentic voice of the First World War soldier, Every man in khaki. Fully annotated so that everyone today can understand the nuance of each 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 turn of the page.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unusually good personal memoir, 13 Nov 2004
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It is quite extraordinary how many memoirs of the Great War are still being published, especially when they are based on the long-lost diaries kept by the soldiers at the time. This is surely among the best, and I heartily recommend reading it.

Deward Barnes was born in Toronto in 1888. He enlisted in the army in 1916 and carried out his training with 180th Battalion. After arrival in England he was posted and fought as a Lewis gunner with 19th Battalion of the CEF at - among others - Hill 70, Passchendaele and Amiens, before being wounded in October 1918 during the great advance near Iwuy. Deward kept a diary in a series of notebooks, which he transcribed in 1926 into a single volume, which appears to have been written for his own purposes rather than publication.

Deward's diaries and sketches have been edited and interpreted by Bruce Cane, formerly a curatorial assistant at Historic Fort York in Toronto. He has done an excellent job too. The passages direct from Deward's diaries are broken by lucid and accurate explanations of the terms being used, and commentary on the incidents and people mentioned. This helps bring the whole thing alive, placing Deward's own comments and thoughts in the wider perspective.

The memoir is full of interest and detail, with many places and men being mentioned. Of particular interest perhaps is the experience of being ordered to take part in a firing squad, and knowing afterward that you did not have the blank round. I found Deward's gradual change from a being a lively, positive young man into weariness and bitterness at the continual loss of his close comrades particularly vivid and a strong reminder of what his generation endured.

The title "It made you think of home" comes from a phrase that appears in the diaries on several occasions. Deward used it whenever he was experiencing something particularly nasty or boring, from camp fatigues to the hell of the front trenches and bombardments.

The book is nicely produced, and represents good value.
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