‘Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went
By Louis Keene
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Louis Keene
Captain Keene has made an exciting contribution to the literature of the present war in his account of service, which covers the experience of a young officer in the making and on the battlefront,–the transformation of an artist into a first-class machine-gun officer.
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He covers the training period at home and abroad and the work at the front. This direct and engaging account should serve to bring home to all of us an appreciation of how much has to be done before troops can be made effective for modern war, the cost of unpreparedness, and the disadvantage under which troops, partially equipped, labour when they meet highly organized ones, prepared, even to the last detail, for all the necessities of modern war. It also brings out the splendid spirit of Canada, the Mother Country, and the distant Colonies,–the spirit of the Empire, united and determined in a just cause.
Louis Keene
