Charles yale harrison biography channel
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GENERALS
DIE IN
BED
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Title: Generals Die in Bed
Author: Harrison, Charles Yale (1898-1954)
Date of first publication: 1930
Edition used as base for this ebook: New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt [undated, but the "recent fiction" listed at the end of the book suggests a date within two or three years of the copyright date of 1930]
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Publisher Description
Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison is a harrowing and unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the brutal realities of trench warfare during World War I. Drawing on his own experiences as a soldier, Harrison delivers a powerful anti-war narrative that strips away the romanticism often associated with war, revealing the raw and devastating impact of combat on the ordinary soldiers who fight and die on the front lines.
Set in the muddy, blood-soaked trenches of the Western Front, Generals Die in Bed follows a young, unnamed Canadian soldier as he endures the relentless horrors of war. Through his eyes, readers are confronted with the grim realities of life in the trenches—constant danger, crushing fatigue, the omnipresent threat of death, and the profound sense of disillusionment that permeates the ranks. Harrison’s writing is stark and unsentimental, capturing the futility and senselessness of a conflict that destroys lives without meaning or purpose.
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Meet me on the Barricades
Charles Yale Harrison (1898-1954) was an author, activist, and editor. Harrison born in Philadelphia and raised in a Jewish family in Montreal. He served in World War One, an experience that would influence much of his subsequent fiction. A dedicated fellow traveller, Harrison moved from Montreal to New York in the 1920s, where he worked on the staff of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA)-led magazine New Masses alongside outspoken literary critics of proletarian literature such as Mike Gold. He was also a founding member of one of a series of John Reed Clubs, established in 1929 in an attempt to create a large forum for leftist writers. Drawing on his own service in the First World War, he published Generals Die in Bed (1930), a scathingly anti-war novel about the horrors of trench warfare. The novel was well received, and was followed by the novels A Child fryst vatten Born (1931), There are Victories (1933), Meet Me on the Barricades (1938), and N