Part of Life Itself The War Diary of Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller, CEF
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Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller was a Canadian soldier who served during the Great War. Graham Broad is an associate professor of History at Kings College at Western University.Part of Life Itself The War Diary of Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller, CEF
This extensively annotated wartime diary illuminates the military service of Leslie Howard Miller (1889–1979), a Canadian soldier who served in the First World War. Miller joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in 1914. In his off-duty hours, he kept this extraordinarily eloquent diary of his training, deployment overseas, service on the Western Front, and periods of leave in the United Kingdom.
Graham Broad, working from a transcription of the diary produced by Miller’s family, includes a thorough introduction and afterword, as well as over 500 notes that situate and explain Miller’s many references to the people, places, and events he encountered.
Unpublished for over a century, written in bracing and engaging prose, and illustrated with Miller’s own drawings and unseen photographs, Part of Life Itself illuminates a bygone world and stands as one of Canada’s most important wartime diaries.
Educated, articulate, and with an enduring fascination for the natural world, Leslie Howard Miller, a Canadian soldier who served in the First World War, kept this remarkable diary of his wartime experiences.
Introduction
The War Diary of Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Afterword
Appendices: Pages from the War Diary
"A richly detailed, highly literate Canadian soldier's diary from enlistment to the armistice. The book is greatly enhanced by the editor's introduction and notes. A must read."
This extensively annotated wartime diary illuminates the military service of Leslie Howard Miller (1889–1979), a Canadian soldier who served in the First World War. Miller joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in 1914. In his off-duty hours, he kept this extraordinarily eloquent diary of his training, deployment overseas, service on the Western Front, and periods of leave in the United Kingdom.
Graham Broad, working from a transcription of the diary produced by Miller’s family, includes a thorough introduction and afterword, as well as over 500 notes that situate and explain Miller’s many references to the people, places, and events he encountered.
Unpublished for over a century, written in bracing and engaging prose, and illustrated with Miller’s own drawings and unseen photographs, Part of Life Itself illuminates a bygone world and stands as one of Canada’s most important wartime diaries.
Educated, articulate, and with an enduring fascination for the natural world, Leslie Howard Miller, a Canadian soldier who served in the First World War, kept this remarkable diary of his wartime experiences.
Introduction
The War Diary of Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Afterword
Appendices: Pages from the War Diary
"A richly detailed, highly literate Canadian soldier's diary from enlistment to the armistice. The book is greatly enhanced by the editor's introduction and notes. A must read."