The Glory of the Trenches; An Interpretation. With an Introduction by W. J. Dawson

Coningsby Dawson was an Anglo-American novelist, literary adviser, and soldier of the Canadian field artillery. He wrote poems, as well short stories, and three novels: Garden Without Walls (1913), an immediate success, followed by The Raft and Slaves of Freedom, and Carry on: letters in wartime, which is quoted in the opening of “the glory” “The glory is all in the souls of the man - it's nothing external.” The story also begins with the words of his father, W.J. Dawson on how this book was written. Coningsby Dawson was wounded at the end of June, 1917, in the fierce struggle before Lens. He went at once removed to a hospital, and later on to a military hospital in London. There was grave danger of amputation of the right arm, but this was happily avoided.