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Swanston, Victor N. [info]; Perry, Jack (illustrator) . Songs of the trenches. Manchester: L. Saunders, 1918?.

Physical description: 23 p., illus.; 19 cm.

Language: English

There is said to have been a 1st edition (London: J. Martin Printers, 1917, 15p.) sold in France for 1 franc, but none of the usual Canadian and British libraries appears to have a copy. Excerpts from the First World War diaries of Victor and Ernest Swanston were published as Who said war is hell!: No. 12895, Private Victor N. Swanston, Fifth Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, World War I , edited by Yvonne S. Burgess and Charles E. Burgess, [Bulyea, Sask.]: Yvonne & Ted Burgess, 1983.

Subject headings:

• Poetry
• World War, 1914-1918